"SELFIE" is the Word of the year 2013

I can’t even narrow when it all started ,  the last time I have my selfie post is like an hour ago and still doing some more, 

 This year marks the craziest craze in the world wide web regardless of your age, race, religion, pretty or not, we love the SELFIE trend, 

recently, the word "Selfie" has been named as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2013

Bits of "Selfie" History from Wikipedia:

The term "selfie" was discussed by photographer Jim Krause in 2005,^[8] although photos in the selfie genre predate the widespread use of the term.

In the early 2000s, before Facebook became the dominant online social network, self-taken photographs were particularly common on MySpace. 

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However, writer Kate Losse recounts that between 2006 and 2009 (when Facebook became more popular than MySpace), the "MySpace pic" (typically "an amateurish, flash-blinded self-portrait, often taken in front of a bathroom mirror") became an indication of bad taste for users of the newer Facebook social network.

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Early Facebook portraits, in contrast, were usually well-focused and more formal, taken by others from distance. In 2009 in the image hosting and video hosting website Flickr, Flickr users used 'selfies' to describe seemingly endless self-portraits posted by teenage girls.

According to Losse, improvements in technology—especially the front-facing camera introduced in the iPhone 4(2010) and mobile photo apps such as Instagram—led to the resurgence of selfies in the early 2010s.

Initially popular with young people, selfies have become popular among adults as well.

In December 2012, Time magazine noted that selfie was among its the "top 10 buzzwords" of 2012; although selfies had existed for years, it was in 2012 that the term "really hit the big time".

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According to a 2013 survey, two-thirds of Australian women age 18-35 take selfies—the most common purpose for which is posting on Facebook.^[11]A poll commissioned by smartphone and camera maker Samsung found that selfies make of 30% of the photos taken by people aged 18–24.

By 2013, the word "selfie" had become commonplace enough to be monitored for inclusion in the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.

In November 2013, the word "selfie" was announced as being the "word of the year" by the Oxford English Dictionary which gave the word itself an Australian