2014 Remained A Selfie Year, Some Interesting Facts About Selfies

The word “selfie” was officially added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2013

2014 has been a selfie year and there is no doubt about that. Many smartphone companies in the start of 2014, referred the year 2014 to be a selfie year and focused on releasing the handsets with accordingly powerful front cameras which turned out to be a productive marketing slogan. Oppo took the lead in releasing best selfie smartphone in 2014 with its Oppo N1 and N3 rotatory cameras so people can take the selfies with primary camera.

Oscars 2014 selfie was the defining moment in selfie taking trend which revolutionized the way we had taken selfies before. After that selfie, the trend erupted on Twitter and it was called the Best Ever Selfie.

Although selfie phenomenon existed before but Hollywood cast took the craze to the whole new level and after that, Instagram popularity increased exponentially.

This year, top celebrities seemed busy in taking selfies and they kept the selfie trend hot. Here are some of the selfie moments of 2014 which went popular across the globe.

Crop Like Kardashian:

Yes, last week Kim Kardashian took photo with her daughter and crop the daughter out of the photo and after that media bashed Kardashian and she appeared on Twitter to reply the criticism.

Capture Like Bradley Cooper:

Who can forget this selfie who accelerated the selfie craze all around the world massively?

Selfie Graph like Taylor Swift:

Taylor Swift says that she observed the autograph culture is getting obsolete and fans want to get associated with celebrities via selfies and for this they are going after phones that have better front cameras.

Even Pakistani and Bollywood celebrities were spotted taking selfies on numerous occasions with fans. Pakistani celebrities mostly prefer handsets with good front cameras. And that is why companies like QMobile and Voice are forced to follow the trends by offering phones with good cameras. Let’s have a look.

8 Facts about Selfie:

Since Facebook accounts maximum number of subscribers that any other social media, 48% of the total selfies are shared on the Facebook of the total social media share.

Over 1 million selfies are taken every day.

Kylie Jenner is the celebrity with most Instagram selfies.

Makati and New York are the cities where most selfies are taken.

Over 35 million selfies have been upload to Instagram and 53 million photos tagged with the hashtag #selfie.

In August 2014, selfie was officially accepted for use in the word game Scrabble.

The world’s largest group selfie included 2000 people and was taken on 23 November 2014 in Brooklyn, New York.

Selfie capturing and sharing has become a phenomenon these days. The selfie appeal largely associated to its easiness and ability of the person to filter it through photo editors which gives user an ultimate satisfaction that how well is he being presented to social media world. The nag is now diverting to next level as a research says mostly people send intentional unclear selfies to WhatsApp and Snapchat to seek attention.

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