Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Instagram Selfies Earned a 19-Year-Old Criminal 142 Felony Counts

I love/hate how the Net now allows a word to come into existence and become ubiquitous in a week. Like now a self-portrait photograph is now called a "selfie". Sigh.

Instagram Selfies Earned a 19-Year-Old Criminal 142 Felony Counts, article.
when the police asked him his occupation, he replied “thief.”


3 comments:

Bert said...

Selfie has been around for quite a while, but it was recently recognized a word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary, the venerable institution that pretty much governs everything pertaining to the English language. Hence the buzz. T'will pass.

Roger B. said...

I don't call them selfies, but I've been taking self portraits while holding the camera for years, usually with a 35mm SLR and a 24mm lens. I would hold the camera upside down in my outstretched right hand between thumb and forefinger, and squeeze the release with my thumb.

Anonymous said...

Like now a self-portrait photograph is now called a "selfie". Sigh.

I'm surprised, I'd have thought someone like you would love a term like that. You're always into the newest technology and jargon.

I don't call them selfies, but I've been taking self portraits while holding the camera for years.... I would hold the camera upside down in my outstretched right hand between thumb and forefinger, and squeeze the release with my thumb.

I believe you must have been the one to start the trend. There's no other explanation, as no one else in the history of photography would have thought of doing that.