Short Story: Selfie Tech

Male's Point of View - ​Brainwashing - Technology

I love this age of perpetual narcissism.

Today’s camera phones are like an open invitation to constantly indulge our need to be seen. To be accepted... 

You don’t have to surf the internet long before you see the millions upon millions of selfies young people keep posting online. It has become its own virtual culture.

And I couldn’t be happier.

Phones today are even more amazing than people realize. Before, you needed up to 5 bulky machines to be able to do some of what a phone can do today. 

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Never mind the insane quality of the screens and camera. The phone can run multiple apps in the background while being able to show you all the latest selfies your friends posted. Not to mention all the latest Instagram filters...

That’s what I do. I design and program apps as well as coding camera filters. I come up with all the cool and surprising effects you can activate when you are doing a face time with your friend and are scrolling through all the weird live effects you can plaster on your face. 

But there is one effect I’m especially proud of.

It's one I don’t brag about too much because most people wouldn’t even believe me. This app is a little special. The cool thing about being one of the main face time app programmers is that it gives me access to the core program for updates. And everyone’s data...

It’s pretty easy for me to pick and choose the users I wanted. A few clicks and their phones would automatically load my special app when they updated their phone. No one suspects my special filter is malware since it comes straight from the company. And really... No one in the company suspects a thing because my code is buried so deep in the main software that I’d be impressed if anyone ever found it.

Then I just wait and enjoy.

What does my special little app do you ask? 

It's all very technical and has to do with light and micro pulses, but the gist of it is that I used the flash on the phone when a persons does a selfie. I added an advanced algorithm to detect if the person is doing a group selfie as to not dose the minds of just anyone.

I programmed it to wait until they are alone in the frame.

And when they are, the special ‘filter’ rapidly blinks the flash in the eyes of the person taking the selfie. One time wouldn’t do much, but since the people I chose tend to do up to 10 selfies a day... 

It becomes a simple matter of time before my special app does its work.

Little by little, the subject slowly develops a subconscious personality. A very submissive personality... Once she doses herself enough, she starts to enact certain pre-determined protocols that signal me that they are...

Well... Mine.

A few hidden messages here.
A few tweaks of her program there.

It’s not too long that I gain full access to her phone and start increasing the strength of the micro-flashes. She then starts to have a urge to do selfies at night. Long sessions where she never seems to get the picture she wants. Making her use her phone until the battery dies.

Flashing her mind with even more of my lovely directives.

Usually I start receiving erotic selfies around that time. She doesn’t know she sends them of course, but I get them none the less. 

And that’s when I start to pick and choose again. Which ones will stay private nude models and which ones will get a free trip.

All expenses paid of course...

It’s the least I can do for all the fun they will mindlessly give me once they arrive in my home.

​Thanks to this age of narcissism, I get to indulge my own version of it and I couldn’t be happier. ​