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Russian guide suggests you may want to rethink that daredevil selfie, Entity reports.

Are those Instagram likes really worth surgery for a bunch of fractured bones?

One daring woman is probably asking herself that very question right now. Earlier this week she fell off of the Foresthill Bridge in California trying to take a cool selfie.

She dropped sixty feet off the tallest bridge in California. The fall landed her in the hospital after getting knocked unconscious, with a gash in her arm and fractured bones that require surgery.

But she’s hardly the first to risk her life “for the ‘gram.” Messiah Garcia, a 13-year-old from New York, just shared a warning after almost drowning in a frozen pond.

“DON’T RISK YOUR LIFE FOR SOMETHING STUPID,” he shared in a written message, just a month after an icy pond in Central Park cracked while he and six other boys tried to take selfies. He admitted that before snapping the pics they had been testing the ice by slamming it with sticks and rocks.

Now you may be asking why the hell would anyone do that? And it’s a fair question. But Garcia and friends – who luckily escaped unscathed – are part of a growing trend of seriously dangerous selfies.

Apps like Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat are likely to blame, with users willing to take the risk for the high of a flood of “likes.” In fact, studies show that now more people are dying by taking selfies than from shark attacks.

Since 2014, at least 49 people have died while attempting selfies, according to data from Priceonomics. The average age of victims is 21 years old, which is not surprising since the majority of Instagram users are between the ages of 18 to 29.

Interestingly enough, despite the fact that women take far more selfies than men, a larger portion of selfie fatalities are male. Seventy-five percent of selfie-related deaths are men.

And the California bridge climber seems to have gotten off easy, as data shows falling from heights is the biggest cause of selfie-related fatalities. The next most common include drowning and train and gunshot-related deaths.

The two daredevils above may have survived, but the data is alarming. Daring feats and stunning vistas probably garner a lot of likes, but they’re definitely not worth your life. So, next time you may want to just rethink that daredevil selfie.

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