Selfie

Hello again at Christmast time (: Today I explain you a curiosity about an actual thing we're used to see but we don't know. Here it goes, enjoy it and your holydays.

# What's a "selfie"?

A selfie is a self-portrait photo, usually taken in a slightly tilted manner with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone, which is usually used to be shown in our profiles on the internet. In 1839 an American pioneer in photography called Robert Cornelius took a photo of himself, taking the first selfie.

# Why did this word originate?

In 2002 an Australian internet forum (ABC online) published this word for the first time, relating a situation colloquially. 

On MySpace, at the beginning, were often used flash-blinded self-portraits, usually taken in front of a bathroom mirror, but then with Facebook they started to be well-focused and more formal, taken by others from distance. Then in 2009 they were also very used on Flickr. 

They appeared the front-facing cameras and apps like Instagram which facilitate this kind of photos, and this word became more used. 

By 2013, the word "selfie" was incluided in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and announced as the "word of the year", whith an Australian origin.