After more than two years I was travelling
home around a festival time. And the new trend that caught my attention was
that many people were taking selfies’ and perhaps capturing their moment.
Although I have no clue what that moment would be as in a selfie you rarely
manage to capture anything outside your face.
I have nothing personal against it. It’s
just that sometimes I find it amusing.
Some of the people on this flight were
perhaps a bit over-enthusiastic and actually trying to capture all their
moments; like a gentleman went on clicking pictures when his son and the wife
coming from the toilet. Which sort of led me to think if I should ask the gentleman,
if he was trying to capture the family’s ease of pressure or was it how they
walk from loo to the seat on an airplane? But then I thought my inquisitiveness
could be taken as rudeness, since I am most of the time inept in handling
social conversations.
Anyways, selfie is a relatively new word in
the English language. In the oxford online dictionary, selfie has been
described as an informal word describing a ‘photograph
that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam
and shared via social media.’ Though my observation is that not all selfie find
their way to social media, some just are shared within family members or as
display pictures for the messaging applications.
Apparently now there are also selfie
competitions that are held and awards distributed like here.
Among the various famous selfies that I managed to see in the process, the following are the best:
Fan Thrilling. Smart move for upping
popularity.
Example 1 - Beyonce
Example 2 - Pope
It is interesting to know that although
selfie as word has come about and entered the usage only since 2002. Though Wikipedia
says, that the first ever selfie was perhaps taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839!!!
