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Whats your default? Whats your favorite go-to expression? Dont be coy; you know you have one.
Sweet smirk? Goofy grin? Smoochy duck-face? Maybe youre more of a bored hipster sneer, a coy Mona Lisa or a sultry come-hither, like you just had sex with a giant chocolate Jesus and someone took Gods name in sweet, sticky vain. I like that one, too.
This is how.
Wait, let me be more specific: Whats your default selfie expression, the specific look you toss off when you hold your smartphone out at arms length and click a self pic, adding your favorite little preen, maybe a head tilt, a little whatchoo-lookin-at sex bomb, and then post it to InstaFaceGramChat. Got one of those? Of course you do.
Selfies! The thing to do. The place to be. 2013s Word of the Year, after all, which means theyre not just for self-obsessed Millennials named Dylan and Mylie and Katniss. The pope does it, big-name celebs do it, models and porn stars and politicians, too. Its now the Internet of Everything: posting a selfie is the new cogito ergo sum.
So cute. So empowering.
Its true. Unless youre over 60 or under a rock, odds are fantastically good that youve already shot a selfie or ten, maybe a thousand, maybe enough to have one of your smoochy duck-faces counted among the over 650,000 selfies that the kids over at SelfieCity recently gathered from a half-dozen countries, culling them down to a few thousand ideal examples before running them all through a facial analysis measuring software algorithm thing.
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/03/11/your-hot-selfie-reveals-all/
madokie
(51,076 posts)but it looked too much like me that it scared me so I deleted it
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)...taking photographs while making a whole array of odd faces and blasting them off to friends using the social media messaging application du jour.
I don't get it.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)We've had the social media responsibility conversation on a few occasions, so we're confident she understands the boundaries and the potential liability irresponsible social media use could play later in life.
She's so far given us no indication that she's violated those responsibilities...
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)A friend who had just graduated from law school stated that he was thinking of running for office in the future. My response was "Not only do we know about the skeletons in your closet, we ARE the skeletons in your closet"
"We ARE the skeletons in your closet."
Perfect.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Once a week or so my wife or I scan the friends of our daughter from our accounts.
There's a lot of involved.
It makes me wonder where the parental supervision is in the equation.
There's a fine line between invasion of privacy and parental supervision.
We personally believe we have a method which provides both.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)I think your comment is for him
Or her? Maybe? Who knows?
Spirituality!
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Do we know? Who cares? I have a lot of space to fill.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Hamilton Felix
(26 posts)Then again, I don't use social media of any kind. I actually had one of my regular customers express shock that I wasn't on Facebook.