Selfie(s)

Selfie is the new trending when it comes to photography. It's now even in some dictionaries. It means a picture of oneself by oneself.

The most usual form of selfie is to snap the face. The face would show different posture so here are some facts about selfie

The first known selfie, taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839.The usage of #selfie first appeared on Flickr in 2004, but it took almost a decade to reach the masses.People have taken self-portraits since the 1880s, when camera shutters with self-timers were first available. This increased in 1900 with the debut of the portable Kodak Brownie box.In Korea, celebrities use the term “selca” for their selfies. The term is a combination of “self” and “camera”. On august 28th 2013, teenagers on a pilgrim took a selfie with Pope Francis, and it was officially deemed the first “Papal Selfie.” A 2013 study of Facebookusers found that posting photos of oneself correlates with lower levels of social support from and intimacy with Facebook friends. Oxford English Dictionary crowned “selfie” the word of the year in 2013.According to a study in five cities, women in Sao Paulo, Brazil pose in selfie more expressively (with head tilts that average 16.9 degrees versus only 7.6 in New York).Women may take selfies more than men. But men over 30 share more selfies than women over 30. Ellen DeGeneres’ “Oscars” super-star selfie is the most retweeted tweet ever — beating out President Obama’s “four more years” tweet from November 7, 2012, the night he was re-elected. Selfies are ruining relationships. New research from the U.K. reveals that posting too many photos of yourself on Facebook is related to a decreased sense of intimacy by people in your network. Time magazine included the word selfie in its “top 10 buzzwords” of 2012.More than 50% of millennials (people born between 1980-2000) have shared a selfie. During Myspace’s heyday (around 2006-09) self-portraits, known as Myspace pics, were common. These were usually poor quality images in front of a bathroom mirror. The switch to Facebook created a decline in amateur self-portraits, but the release of the iPhone 4 and its front facing camera lead to a resurgence of the self portrait in 2010-11. Google searches indicates selfie began increasingly popular in late 2012.Photographer Jim Krause claims to have coined the term selfie sometime in 2005.According to research, the word selfie first appeared in September 13, 2002 on the ABC online forum in Australia. “Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer [sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.”In early 2014, shirtless bathroom selfies banned from flirting app Skout after it’s proved they lower appeal.