Selfie sticks are easy to mock and are an excellent way to embarrass your friends. To be fair, they’re also a decent way to get a snapshot of yourself and your significant other in front of something without asking a stranger to handle your phone. That use is proving to be a problem in some museums, however, and now the banhammers are coming: a couple museums in New York have banned the use of selfie sticks on their premises, and they’re not the only ones. The reason is due to safety.

Camera extension poles are nothing knew, but so-called selfie sticks have been criticized as another example of the allegedly growing narcissism of the present generation. Regardless, they’re becoming more common place, particularly among tourists looking to record memories at more flattering angles.
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