“Selfie noun, informal (also selfy; plural selfies): a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” (OED, 2014)
Each day 93 million selfies (photos taken using a forward facing lens) are taken with Android devices (Kennemer, 2014). The portion posted online is hard to pinpoint exactly, but even a small percentage represents large numbers. In aggregate, the number is staggering. Anecdotally, a search for #selfie on Instagram produces over 270 million results and this is but one of many social network outlets for selfies.
To channel Adam Levin in “The Selfie in the Age of Digital Recursion” (2014), there are a half a billion* stories in the ecobiotic milieu. Here are five of them:
