Nowadays people are crazy about Selfie Pictures,
Social Media and Smartphones played a big role in founding this new era of Selfie Pictures,
but wait a minute!

According to WikiPedia

Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photographs of a person. Because the process was slow he was able to uncover the lens, run into shot for a minute or more, and then replace the lens cap. He recorded on the back “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.”

Below you can see the picture of Robert Cornelius taken 1893.

Wow!!! So Selfie are nothing new.

However, the term selfie started gaining in popularity based on the below events.

• The term “selfie” was discussed by photographer Jim Krause in 2005
• Although photos in the selfie genre predate the widespread use of the term. In the early 2000s, before Facebook became the dominant online social network, self-taken photographs were particularly common on MySpace.
• between 2006 and 2009 (when Facebook became more popular than MySpace), the “MySpace pic” (typically “an amateurish, flash-blinded self-portrait, often taken in front of a bathroom mirror”) became an indication of bad taste for users of the newer Facebook social network. Early Facebook portraits, in contrast, were usually well-focused and more formal, taken by others from distance.
• In 2009 in the image hosting and video hosting website Flickr, Flickr users used ‘selfies’ to describe seemingly endless self-portraits posted by teenage girls.
• According to Losse, improvements in design—especially the front-facing camera copied by the iPhone 4 (2010) from Korean and Japanese mobile phones, mobile photo apps such as Instagram, and selfie sites such as ItisMee—led to the resurgence of selfies in the early 2010s.
• By the end of 2012, Time magazine considered selfie one of the “top 10 buzzwords” of that year.
• By 2013, the word “selfie” had become commonplace enough to be monitored for inclusion in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. In November 2013, the word “selfie” was announced as being the “word of the year” by the Oxford English Dictionary, which gave the word itself an Australian origin.
• A selfie orchestrated by 86th Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres during the 2 March 2014 broadcast is the most retweeted image ever.

Ellen DeGeneres Selfie during the 86th Academy Awards

That’s how the picture was taken by Bradley Cooper

OK, let’s define the word “selfie” according to different famous sources:

WikiPedia

A selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. Selfies are often shared on social networking services such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Tumblr. They are often casual, and are typically taken either with a camera held at arm’s length or in a mirror.

Dictionary.com

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Water Selfie

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Funny Selfie with a Camel

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Adventure Selfie

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Air Force Missile Selfie

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Underwater Selfie

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Camel Bite Selfie

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Pilot Selfie

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Diving Selfie

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Adventure Selfie

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Surfing Selfie

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Selfie from the Top of the Dubai Marina Building in Dubai

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Fighter Pilot Selfie

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Pilot Selfie

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Skydiving From Balloon Selfie

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Selfie Taken from the Top of a Dubai Marina Building in Dubai

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Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktum Celebrating the Winning of Expo 2020

at the Top of the Tallest Building in the World (Burj Khalifa)

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Biker Selfie