Social media demands images, and not all of us want to, or are willing to, pay professional photographers to capture our faces for posting online.

Hence, the much-maligned “selfie,” defined by the Oxford dictionary as:

Definition of selfie in English:

noun (plural selfies)

A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media:occasional selfies are acceptable, but posting a new picture of yourself every day isn’t necessary