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'Selfie' is Word of the Year

James FrancoThe Oxford Dictionary has announced that ‘selfie’ is the word of the year. The word which describes taking a photograph of yourself narrowly beat out ‘twerk’.

We’re overjoyed that ‘selfie’ made the cut, for it gives a reason to post this gratuitous selfie taken by James Franco.

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The OUTinPerth crew have been known to take the occasional selfie and Joel Creasey sent us one at end of his Twitter interview. Of course Cazwell wrote a whole song about the phenomenon.

It seems that the word was first used (as far as anyone can tell) by an Australian man going under the nic Hopey, he posted a picture of his stitched up lip on an ABC message board back in 2002.

Just for fun, take a selfie yourself and send it to us.

 

 

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