Do selfies make your nose look big? Study says yes


  • TECH
  • Monday, 05 Mar 2018

TOPSHOT - Women pose for selfies under the snow on the Place du Trocadero in front the Eiffel Tower in Paris on February 5, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Lionel BONAVENTURE

It is the inescapable 21st-century vexation of the vain. Smartphones allow a person to take selfies as fast as the index finger can click, yet from a dismayingly close distance that may leave the subject dissatisfied. 

Don't fret, a team of researchers from Rutgers and Stanford says in a new analysis published Thursday. The culprit is distortion. 

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