Selfie obsession fuelling skin cancer

Instagram and Facebook are 'fuelling skin cancer' because selfie-obsessed youngsters are ignoring warnings for a 'like' from friends.

 Social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook are helping to fuel an epidemic of skin cancer.

Harley Street dermatologist Christopher Rowland Payne said selfie-obsessed youngsters were ignoring warnings about long- term damage for a momentary ‘like’ from friends.

You can be tanned in three or four days, but the adverse consequences come much later. It’s short-term reward – pleasure now – but long-term cost.’

 

The selfie craze and “bragging” on Instagram and other social media sites… these make people try to be brown and that very much feeds into this problem.’

‘Smoking is now considered yucky, but tanning is not,’ he said, adding: ‘Women seek a tan more than men, but men admire women who are tanned.’

 

People also liked tanning because it gave them a physical high, he said, explaining that the sensation was akin to taking a drug.

Skin cancer is the most common and fastest rising form of cancer in the UK. 

Melanomas are the most deadly form, killing 2,500 people in Britain every year.

 

Twitter co-founder apologizes for helping elect Trump

Evan Williams apologized if Twitter helped out Donald Trump in the White House 

President has credited Twitter with his election to the highest office in the land

The 45-year-old entrepreneur said he also believes the internet is broken

He believes things are getting worse, as people use Facebook to record in real-time, suicides, beatings and murder

A co-founder of Twitter says he's sorry if the popular social media platform helped put Donald Trump in the White House, as the president has suggested.
Evan Williams said Twitter's role in Trump's populist rise is 'a very bad thing', during an interview with the New York Times. The president has credited Twitter with his election to the highest office in the land.
Trump told Fox News in March: 'I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter, because I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press.'
When confronted with the notion that Twitter played a part in helping Trump get elected, Williams said: 'If it's true that he wouldn't be president if it weren't for Twitter, then yeah, I'm sorry.'