10 Fascinating And Weird Facts About Selfies You May Not Know

Selfies which became the one of the hot topics and famous hashtag in social media.

There are many have  interesting facts about this new rage that we bet you never knew.

Scroll down to know about the facts about Selfies:

1. The first selfie was captured long back in the year 1839 when photographer Robert Cornelius tried to take photograph. Another enthralling fact about this particular selfie is that he had to stand still for few minutes before the picture is captured in camera.

2.     In the year 2013, Oxford Dictionary added this word and also announced it as the ‘word of the year’. Oxford Dictionary does not call the picture a selfie unless you share it on social media.

3. Apparently, in 2011, a photographer David Slater left his camera for a macaque monkey. The monkey’s self-taken selfie became super popular. Below is the image.

4. Ellen DeGeneres Took the Most Epic Selfie of All Time at the Oscars in 2014. It became the most retweeted picture ever, superseding President Obama’s selfie. It broke the internet with 3.4 million retweets and over 2 million favorites.

5. There is a link between selfies, narcissism and psychopathy. Yes, according to the recent study by researchers at The Ohio State University that people who post more selfies score higher on narcissism and psychopathy.

6. Selfie Sticks became one of the Time’s 25 best inventions of 2014.

7. The release of the iPhone 4 and its front facing camera feature led to a revival of the self-portraits.

8. Reportedly Designer/photographer Jim Krause claims to have coined the term “selfie”.

9. Reportedly #Selfie was used as a hashtag first in Flickr in 2004.

10. Samsung discovered that selfies make up 30% of the photos taken by people between the ages of 18–24.

Strange and interesting facts of selfie we loved to know, what about you?