You may ask yourself when you see people taking selfies everywhere, what is a selfie??.
Definition: A photo of oneself usually taken with a
mobile phone and posted online to social media sites.
2005 to 2008 was dominated by MySpace, the largest social
network then who started the selfie concept by letting users
upload a ‘MySpace
pic.’
Fast forward to August 28, 2013, when ‘Selfie’ has been
officially added to Oxford Dictionary.
All kinds of people from kids to important public figures
like The Pope have
starting taking selfies.
A century from now, there may be departments of "Selfie
Studies" at our universities. This is how revealing these documents are,
the quickly snapped self portraits we create with smart phones and share with
the world as if it were a fundamental human right.
While so many of them are silly, the phenomenon seems
significant. To many it is a source of
being cool and on fashion so
cheer up guys and take a selfie!
I guess this trend tends to be as any other new fashionable revolution. Although we are imitating the West in every aspect and we are trying to reach their standards whenever possible, this selfie seems a CUTE trend. People are taking selfie whenever they have the chance to and guess what!!!!? Some pictures are really ugly or inappropriate yet we learned to accept everything because the west says "It's beautiful". I hope we can act as natural as they are.
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MMMmmmmmmm in fact i found it funny to write a comment because different people have different directions ,different perspectives , different attitudes and different ideas.This phenomena is by the new generation using the Facebook and the Android .I think it is to attract people's attention on how those people look cool as you said Shatha .But we as teacher who respect others perspectives we should always directing our students to the right road academically and morally.
ReplyDeleteNew fashion using technology, to use it in positive things now and for future, but not as silly things just to follow what is going on, imitate others. Everyone can try the new things but use it in good way. Thanks for the new info Shatha
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