Thursday, 30 April 2015

Amita's celebration @duplay

Don't lie, we know you take selfies, too! So, if you're going to click away, you may as well get some tips on how to get the best shot . . . right? We think so ..
Google is jumping on the selfie bandwagon by letting users upload their self-portraits to use as Gmail inbox themes. The company is also letting users share these themes with one another. They're shareable selfies, or as Google likes to call them, "Shelfies.

Taking photos of ourselves is the signature act of our times. "selfie" is the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year.  Just about every blogger, columnist and style reporter has deemed selfie-mania a pernicious outgrowth of the era's unparalleled narcissism.“selfie” has been chosen as word of the year by the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, beating out “twerk” and a host of other Internet and social-media-related terms,  that have exploded onto the verbal scene in recent years. “It seems like everyone who is anyone has posted a selfie somewhere on the Internet,” Oxford Dictionaries said on its blog , without offering an accompanying selfie of the writer. . And why not? On Facebook, isn’t everyone a star? “We’ve been flipping through magazines ...