# We were never supposed to see our own faces this much | Dazed

<https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/60860/1/we-were-never-supposed-to-see-our-faces-this-much-social-media-zoom>

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## What Jamie wrote

Much has been written about how distracting it is to see yourself on the screen. I always prefer to turn off "Self View" in Zoom. But it also can be psychologically damaging. For me this connects back to the huge boom of Instagram tied to the launch of the front-facing camera.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT264: Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/264/), Notable

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