In 2006, Time Magazine chose ' You ' as person of the year. The cover featured a mirror in which the reader could see his own reflection. The reason was the contribution that millions of people made daily by adding content to YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr and MySpace. Fast forward to 2013: in the changed media landscape, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are the most popular networks to show your face via a so-called 'selfie'.
On Instagram – the epicentre of the selfie revolution – there are currently more than 53 million photos tagged with the hashtag #selfie. In one week at the end of October, the word #selfie appeared in more than 368,000 status oman mobile phone number list updates on Facebook. In the same period on Twitter, #selfie was used in more than 150,000 tweets. And recently, the smartphone application Selfie has also been launched , which focuses on the narcissistic person. Incidentally, it is striking how much the word selfie has taken off. In 2012, according to Google Trends, it did not even appear on the Internet.
The term was coined back in 2005 by designer and photographer Jim Krause: “A 'selfie' is one of those images that is taken by aiming a camera at yourself.” At the end of last year, the word selfie suddenly made the Times Magazine's top ten list of buzz words . According to the article 'Self-portraits and social media: The rise of the 'selfie' has selfie-ism everywhere. The word is even up for inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary.