Short Essay On Selfie

The selfie gets a new sweet makeover with the “Donut”!
The term “Selfie”, defined by Oxford Dictionary as a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media. Its first recorded occurrence was in 27 January 2011 as an Instagram hashtag, when an Australian posted a picture of himself on an internet forum and called it a “selfie” (CBS News, 2014). While devices for taking photos of oneself have been available for many years prior to the creation of smartphones which are responsible for this phenomenon, the history of the selfie back dated to the origins of photography itself.

Artists across the ages (Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vonnegut, Stevie Nicks and others) had used different mediums to

In Feb 2014, Allen Degeneres’s “selfie” taken during the Academy Awards broadcast had earned worth up to US$1 billion as it spread across media around the world (Straits Times, 2014) and became the most tweeted selfie in history with approximately 37 million tweets. Closer to home, we saw our Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong tweeting a selfie of himself with Malaysia Prime Minister, Najib Razak in Nov 2013 while attending the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting. According to a poll commissioned by Samsung in the U.K., selfies have taken over photography that among 18 to 24-year-olds, 30 percent of all photography is composed of pictures taken by holding a cell phone at arms’ length from one’s own face.

Selfie has become such a global phenomenon that the word was being used more than 6,000 billion in mainstream media sources and even crowned as the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2013.

But Just when you thought every possible variation of the selfie had been explored, there's a new one in town. Forget your quest to take the perfect selfie, you can become current and cool again! How? With the "donut selfie," of