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OXFORD DICTIONARIES’ NEW WORD FOR 2014: SELFOOD

August 5, 2014 Pol Pinoy 1 Comment

London, Great Britain (The Adobo Chronicles) – In 2013, Oxford Dictionaries named ‘selfie’ as the word of the year. A self photograph taken with a mobile device, selfie became an international buzz word earning it an official spot in the English dictionary.

With just five months remaining in the 2014 calendar, Oxford Dictionaries just announced that it has included a new word this year: selfood.

A noun defined as a photograph taken of one’s food and posted on social media, selfood has tremendously grown in popularity and is expected to break the record of selfies. (A person who takes the food photo is called selfoodie).

In home kitchens and restaurants, in 5-star hotels and mobile food trucks, people have become addicted to taking pictures of food right before digging their fork or chopsticks into the edible work of art served before them.

It is estimated that 49 percent of photos posted on social media are those of food. Search engine companies like Google and Yahoo have expressed confidence that by the end of 2014, selfood will take over selfie as the most common activity on the Internet. And the most popular word for that matter.

So, let’s go take a selfie. But first, let’s take a selfood.

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SELFIES: FIRST A MENTAL DISORDER, NOW A SYMPTOM OF SEXUAL DEFICIENCY

June 30, 2014 Pol Pinoy 5 Comments

Wageningen, The Netherlands (The Adobo Chronicles) – Selfies seem to be taking quite a bit of beating lately. First, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently officially classified selfies as a mental disorder. Now, a Dutch researcher says selfies can cause a severe sexual imbalance.

The Dutch researcher, Christyntjes Van Gallgher and his team from Wageningen University studied 800 people who self-identified as ‘selfie addicts.’ The study found that 83% of the study participants had zero to low sexual activity, leading the researchers to conclude that selfitis, as defined by the APA, also causes sexual deficiency syndrome, a condition that depletes the body’s hormones and sexual appetite. The study has a margin of error of plus or minus 3%.

The researchers recommended that selfie addicts reduce their social media activity (taking self photos and posting them on the Internet) by at least 50% in order to regain normal production of their hormones.

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PHILIPPINE MAYOR PLANS TICKER TAPE PARADE TO CELEBRATE HIS CITY’S SELFIE WORLD RECORD.

March 11, 2014 Pol Pinoy 5 Comments

Makati City, Philippines – Makati is known as the Wall Street of the Philippines , a financial hub where towering offices, hotels and condos dwarf the squatter shanties just a stone’s throw away. It is also known for its feisty mayor Junjun Binay, son of the incumbent vice president and brother to two other Binays, a senator and a congresswoman.

Mayor Binay was recently embroiled in a controversy where he tried to bully his way into a private upscale residential village because he wanted a shorter, traffic- free route to his destination. When the village security guards refused passage to the mayor’s convoy, he made sure the security guards were “invited” to the local police precint for questioning.

But that controversy is gone now and the mayor is buoyed up by news that Makati has achieved a prestigious world record – the number one spot in fact – which he attributes to his administration. Makati has just been named top ‘selfie capital’ of the world, according to Instagram records. Makati topped the list with 258 selfie takers per 100,000 people. Makati has a population of 500,000.

To celebrate this great honor, Mayor Binay has declared March 14 as a city-wide holiday with a ticker tape parade scheduled at 11 am. Binay is urging all Makati residents to take to the streets that day and not to leave their homes without their smart phones. According to Binay’s brilliant plan, at exactly 12 noon, all parade participants and spectators will be asked to take a selfie with their smart phones. Apparently, Binay is aiming for another world record, the most number of selfies taken at the exact same time.

Pasig, a Metro Manila suburb was named top selfie capital, along with Makati, but Pasig residents don’t think it is such a big deal. The same sentiment has been expressed by Cebu City in Central Philippines which was ranked number 9 in the world. So no ticker tape parade or holidays in either Pasig or Cebu.