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        What is a “selfie”？ It can be defined this way: “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” 41 Oxford Dictionaries, it is also the word of the year for 2013.

        This word has actually been 42 for more than ten years. An editor at Oxford Dictionaries has traced the origins of “selfie” back to 2002， 43 it was first used in an Internet forum in Australia. Then, over the years that followed, smartphones and social media sites became more and more common, and the popularity of this word 44 . In fact, statistics show the use of this word has increased by as much as 17,000 percent this past year.

        With its great popularity, “selfie” looks like it is here to stay. Other 45 for the Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 Word of the Year included “showrooming，” which means looking at a product in a shop and then buying it online, and “bitcoin，” which is the name of a new digital currency.