It must be true.
I read it on the Internet.

Keeping in mind my previous comments about selfies and duck lips – you can imagine my response to reading this:

** I was right **

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has officially confirmed what I thought all along.

Taking ‘selfies’ is a mental disorder.

Knock me down and hand me a beer.

After all, it must be true.
I read it on the Internet.

The disorder is called selfitis, and is defined as the obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media as a way to make up for the lack of self-esteem and to fill a gap in intimacy.

Remember, it must be true.
I read it on the Internet.

According to the press release, there are three levels of the disorder:

Borderline selfitis : taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day but not posting them on social media

Acute selfitis: taking photos of one’s self at least three times a day and posting each of the photos on social media

Chronic selfitis: Uncontrollable urge to take photos of one’s self round-the-clock and posting the photos on social media more than six times a day.

Except – it’s not true.
Because I read it on the Internet.

If anything it proves too many folks have no idea kind of website they’re on.

Like this one.
What are you doing here?

Thousands of people visited the parody news site and started forwarding the fake story.

Apparently none of those stopped to wonder why no other news website is reporting it.

It’s not necessarily true.
If you read it on the Internet.

Too bad.
It would have explained a lot.

I remain grumpy.