It seems that everywhere you turn, people are stopping to smile at a little screen in their palms. Selfies are a trend that were initially popular with young people around 2012 and became even more widely talked about when it was included in the Oxford English Dictionary as a real word a year later.

Though I would never pass up a selfie on a good hair day, I do think there is a time and place for everything. It seems that I can’t even make it to my next class without having to stop behind the students who decided passing period is a great time to “selfie” in the middle of the hall.

Selfies have become so popular that some people actually are becoming addicted to taking them. Danny Bowman is a 19-year old who admitted to taking over 200 selfies a day. The well-known Kim Kardashian actually hired someone to take photos of her for the upcoming “Selfie-Book” she’ll be releasing. While camera rolls are no books, take a look and see just how many selfies you can manage to take of yourself.

It’s not only in the halls that you will see someone neglecting their surroundings for a good picture. Apart from the borderline obsession, there can even come physical dangers from, yes, selfies. A couple in Portugal fell off the edge of a cliff while posing for a selfie.

Though stopping in the hall before the kid who’s already on their ninth tardy seems as dangerous as a bull stampede, this danger is only a small view at the mountain of a problem selfies can create.

Selfies are not bad. It’s only a matter of how much we allow ourselves to be caught up in them. Instead of so many selfies, let’s make it more about those around us and follow a different trend. One our very own principal introduced to us. The “Us-ie.”