Last week Frank and I consolidated our mobile phone accounts to both be on Verizon. I transferred my old white cell phone to him and I got an iPhone6. It is a bit bigger than the iPhone5 so the screen is easier to read but I am glad I did not get an iPhone6+ which would have been too huge to fit in most pockets. Talking on it would have been like holding a tablet to my ear. Because I wanted a white phone again, I selected a pretty blue protective case so Frank and I can tell our cell phones apart at a glance. I selected a calm blue screen saver and it looks so serene. I just wanted to show it off so I took a photo of my new cell phone with my Lumix digital camera.
This made me realize that a cell phone, unlike its user, cannot take a picture of itself. If a cell phone
could take a picture of itself, would that be a
cellfie?
I pondered this because coincidentally, just the other evening, Frank I learned a crucial fact from watching
Jeopardy. The Eleventh Edition of
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary added "selfie" to its official list of words in 2014.
Definition of SELFIE:an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks
What technological marvel will be next?
A post about selfies with no selfie in it... Is there a word that means "the opposite of 'meta'?"
ReplyDeleteHold a cell phone to a mirror and it takes a selfie!
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