For reasons that remain unclear, a 22-year-old named Jared Michael recently attempted to take a selfie in front of an oncoming train. Despite being a "safe distance" from the train, things didn't go exactly as Michael expected.
If you want a photo with President Obama, you'll have to get someone else to take it. After some recent high-profile photos, the White House is officially reining in the Twitpic-er-in-Chief.
A teenage girl is accused of stabbing her best friend 65 times. Police believe she wanted revenge after the other girl uploaded naked photos the two had taken together to Facebook.
This Thursday, Colin Powell took to Facebook to brag about being way ahead of his time. "I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks," he wrote. "Eat your heart out Ellen!"
The internet was weird this week. Mostly in a good way. But also in a bullshitty way.
Oscar night was not Liza Minnelli's night. She didn't wear a bra and that was weird, and she was boxed out of Ellen DeGeneres' historic and important photo of A-listers, which quickly attained her stated goal of being the most retweeted photo of all time.
Monkeys: Terrible at filmmaking, great at extortion.
Welcome to the age of selfie-transmitted diseases.
This is creepy as hell: A woman realized her house was broken into while she was home after she found the burglar's selfie on her cell phone the next day.
A high school senior is facing suspension for posting a selfie she took with a dead body to Instagram.
"I think this world would be better off having more young women holding a fish in a picture than holding their camera in front of a bathroom mirror, taking a selfie." -Sarah Palin. No PR people are writing her quotes! Never change, fish lady. [FB]
We can finally declare the first meme of the year: Selfie Olympics aka extreme selfies aka #And1SelfieLeague, in which kids take increasingly absurd bathroom selfies. If you're anti-selfie culture, avert your eyes.
Erik von Markovik, also known as Mystery, is "famous" in the seduction community for his skills in picking up women. These practitioners of seduction, often called pickup artists, pride themselves on their ability to bag women using such cool tricks as "peacocking" (dressing like an asshole) and "kino" (touching women…
DATELINE: TUMBLR — The world of perfect teens was rocked by rumors of selfie terrorism this week, after erroneous reports of a photoboming at a Beyoncé concert in Melbourne ripped through social media.
Because your body will simply shut down once it realizes it's being forced to share the same plane of existence with the kind of people who think it's completely normal to snap selfies at funerals and upload them to social media sites with the caption "love my hair today, hate why I'm dressed up" and the hashtag…
One bizarre weirdo blogger admits her secret shame: she doesn't like taking selfies. Thankfully, she's working to overcome this disability.
A Florida high school student who posed for a selfie while his pregnant teacher was experiencing contractions behind him found viral fame this week after his photo was retweeted over 20,000 times.
Geraldo Rivera's mustachioed, leathery, regret-and-pipe-tobacco scented seminude selfie has cost the newsman a speaking gig at Duquesne University.
Whether an earnest expression of serious self-love or a clever and calculated jab at modern society's self-parodying obsession with selfies, @mrpimpgoodgame's Instagram account is the only Instagram account that should bother existing.
Taking selfies got this teenager arrested. We can only hope this marks the start of a trend.
