Selfies are headlines and front-page news. President Barack Obama caught hell for taking selfies with world leaders at Mandela’s funeral ceremony. Kim Kardashian takes them of her butt and new bikinis.Justin Bieber made whole selfie music videoclip.And as you already know “Oscar selfie” produced by Ellen DeGeneres became most famous selfie of all time, braking retweets record and crashing Twitter.A selfie picture made with Samsung smartphone at Academy Awards made next day headlines. Samsung promised to give $1 to charity for each retweet most famous selfie will receive.. Selfies are everywhere. Currently it’s one of the most popular pictures type around the web. Selfie infographic “Selfiegraphic” shows us how popular selfies are around the world. Who is taking more selfies: man or woman? What are the selfie’s demographic range? And many other facts and statistics. Since 2012, the words “selfie” popularity grew more than 17,000 %! Selfies are new global phenomena and this selfie infographic helps us to understand why and how this is happening. This infographic is slightly different than any other we have published previously. Latest design trends are focused on the pictures, especially deep field and blurry images. Parallax effect today is widely popular among web designers community. “Selfiegraphic” infographic is static form of data visualization, therefore we cannot implement parallax effect. But we used simple solution to achieve similar effect. Selfie infographic background is made of most popular selfie pictures. We applied blur effect on all of these images and result was quite close to what’s trending right now. There are not many infographics around , using this type of background effects, but in the near future we will see more and more “deep field background” infographics. Selfies popularity was directly influenced by smartphones front camera functionality (first mobile front camera was build in iPhone 4). Smartphones camera’s quality is constantly improving and we can expect even bigger growth of selfies in the near future. Especially when application such as selfie.com will be launched really soon… Hope you will enjoy this selfie infographic , as we did creating it. Please share and don’t forget to leave your comments!
Selfie infographic “Selfiegraphic”
how or where did you get your information
Hi Benaji, each infographic requires to do the research and collect facts related to the infographics subject. Here are some facts that was used in this infographic http://www.searchenginejournal.com/13-things-know-word-year-selfie/78339/
Hi Mantas, where did you get the information about how many people alter their selfies?
Hi Nicole, here is a good source to read more about selfies: http://renfrewcenter.com/news/afraid-be-your-selfie-survey-reveals-most-people-photoshop-their-images
You can find lots of stats,numbers and percentage, which you can combine.For example we took 15%(removing blemishes) + 15% (adding color) + 6% (make themselves look thinner ). We didn’t took in consideration 12% , because this number reflects emotional state (feeling unhappy how they look in general) , while other numbers shows which actions (alter) people take.
I’ve seen this infographic and references to it seemingly everywhere but there aren’t any references cited for the statistics above the rather vague “According to Samsung” heading. Is this just dummy content to show how to design an infographic? If not, where did the data come from?
Hi Garry,
infographic have 3 sources.
1st part is from 2013.
The research was conducted by Opinium (http://www.opinium.co.uk) behalf of the HTC One:
Fieldwork: 26th to 29th July 2013
2,005 Nationally Representative (UK
adults aged 18+). Of those 1,025
Sample: have taken a selfie.
2nd part is from 2013 ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10123875/Family-albums-fade-as-the-young-put-only-themselves-in-picture.html – Samsung )
And last part about popularity of selfies is 2012/2013 from Google Research ( http://www.google.com/trends/explore ).
Best regards,
Tomislav