The Science Behind The Selfie [Infographic]

A short departure from the usual posts about marketing, copywriting and social media today, but still relevant.

You can’t help but have noticed the rise of the selfie. From the world famous Oscar effort to that really annoying dance hit #SELFIE, they are everywhere. They were even banned at the Tour de France because of the dangerous situations spectators where getting into trying to get their heroes in the background.

You may think there’s nothing to one – a lot of it is being in the right place at the right time. But you’d be wrong.

According to an interesting post I came across the other day by Dan Zarrella there’s a lot more to a successful selfie than first thought.

What follows is an infographic he put together from a study of 160,000 Instagram images tagged #Selfie.

Take a look and grab some tips to make your selfie liked.

Author – Sally Ormond, Briar Copywriting Ltd