Your hot selfie reveals all, Mark Morford

[madokie]

What’s your default? What’s your favorite go-to expression? Don’t be coy; you know you have one.

Sweet smirk? Goofy grin? Smoochy duck-face? Maybe you’re 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 God’s name in sweet, sticky vain. I like that one, too.
This is how.

Wait, let me be more specific: What’s your default selfie expression, the specific look you toss off when you hold your smartphone out at arm’s 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. 2013’s Word of the Year, after all, which means they’re 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. It’s now the Internet of Everything: posting a selfie is the new cogito ergo sum.
So cute. So empowering.

It’s true. Unless you’re over 60 or under a rock, odds are fantastically good that you’ve 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/

[malaise]

1. LOL

[madokie]

11. I took a selfie once to use as my avatar

but it looked too much like me that it scared me so I deleted it

[Earth_First]

2. My daughter spends hours on end it seems...

...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]

3. And one day all those will come back to haunt her.

[Earth_First]

4. Potentially.

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]

5. Many years ago at a party-about 35 or so

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"

[Earth_First]

6. +1

"We ARE the skeletons in your closet."

Perfect.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

7. frown face

[Earth_First]

9. I hear you...

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]

10. my frown was directed at the guy who responded to you

I think your comment is for him

Or her? Maybe? Who knows?

Spirituality!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

8. and maybe they learned expressions...or not

Do we know? Who cares? I have a lot of space to fill.

[madokie]

12. Kick

[Hamilton Felix]

13. Since I'm not over 60, I must live under a rock. I've never shot a single selfie, let alone 1000.

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.

[madokie]

14. I'm not on facebook either