Much virtual ink has been spilled over the past few days over the Oxford Dictionary's choice of "selfie" for 2013 word of the year. But I've noticed among the chorus of opinions on the social media self portrait an annoying trend: the selfie evangelist. Selfies are just dandy, they say, because they're a way for people…
The penultimate authority of the English language (Urban Dictionary will always be number one) has spoken! Let it be known henceforth that in this 2013th year in the Gregorian calendar, the global zeitgeist was encapsulated in the word "selfie." Pretty much exactly what one would expect a team of ivory tower…
Welome back to your favorite Vanity Smurf playground. While you were staring at a screen under fluorescent lights, celebrities were out frolicking and turning the camera on themselves.
Remember Kimberly Hall, the Christian mommy blogger who told teenage girls
Kimberly Hall, Director of Women’s Ministry at a Presbyterian Church in Texas, has a message for teenage girls who take bedtime selfies in their pajamas: stop luring her teenage sons into sin. Why would you devil harlots want to control the Hall boys' minds? Are you whores and witches? She outlines her urgent plea in a …
If you have just descended to Earth from above, like John Travolta as the eponymous character in 1996's hit movie Michael, the selfie is a picture you take of yourself with a mobile phone in order to produce a self-portrait that looks like your more attractive, possibly Robo-tripping cousin.
Kids. KIDS. Do not take selfies when you're visiting the sites of tragic, historically important events. Just don't do it. Or if you feel like you have to for some reason — maybe you need to prove you were there to win a bet? — try to take the picture without serving duck face or deucing. Keep your face neutral. Keep…
Forget posting closeup overheads filtered lovingly through Valencia to your Instagram, taking selfies with your bookshelfies (sorry) is the latest in vanity pics.
This might be worse than toddlers with style blogs.
Consider how many times you've heard that "X" trend has turned "boy-girl relations into a cut-throat sexual race" over the decades; substitute "X" for "sexting," "crop tops," or "coed education," and you've got yourself a Newsweek cover story. This week, X = "pouty self portraits" — otherwise known as the selfie — and the…
Do you remember what life was like before Hillary Clinton joined Twitter? I can barely mentally reconstruct those dark times: everything was a bit muted, muffled in a palpable layer of disappointment, and everyone was always muttering, "There must be more to life than this..." as they shuffled along despondently.
Indiscreet Facebook posting usually leads to trouble, especially if, let’s say, you’re part of a fairly conservative institution that doesn’t value individual expression quite as much as unstinting obedience and homogeneity. If you were serving in the Israeli military, for instance, you might not want to post…
In this PSA from Children of the Street, a young woman warns other young women to steer clear of sending sexy selfies out into the scary wilds of the Internet. Although it's undoubtedly true that teens today need a double dose of awareness around the risks involved in sending compromising photos, it's more true that …
"You're doing a piece about dick pics, right?"
