Cool Facts about Selfie

Hi, friends...! Selfie... Have you heard this word ? Sorry, wrong question, right one is , Did you take a Selfie today..???

Yes, friends..you have heard the same...we all know Selfie is skyrocketed nowadays...!! You don't believe but, when i was writing this post and you are reading this post now, a thousands of selfies is being taken.!! Right...???

So, today let's know something crazy about the 'Selfie'.



  • Selfie can be defined as "a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website".
  • Designer/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.
  • The first known selfie was taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839.
  • The word itself was officially added to The Oxford English Dictionary in August 2013, and was voted as the “Word of the Year.”
  • Time magazine included the word selfie in its “top 10 buzzwords” of 2012.
  • The word selfie in the English language has skyrocketed in use. It has increased by 17,000% since 2012.
  • Samsung discovered that selfies make up 30% of the photos taken by people between the ages of 18–24.
  • In Korea, celebrities use the term “selca” for their selfies. The term is a combination of “self” and “camera”.
  • 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.


  • As of October 2013, Miley Cyrus is the celebrity with the most amount of posted selfies on Twitter with 121.


  • Kylie Jenner, one of the young Kardashians, has posted 451 selfies on Instagram.




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