The best thing about our trip to the gallery today was looking at the photos that you took on my camera once we got home. It wasn't until I uploaded them onto my computer that I realised you'd taken two 'selfies' - a self portrait of yourself, as though it was to be uploaded to Facebook, Instagram or some other social networking site. As I write I wonder if any of these platforms will still be around in years to come when you revisit these words and photos. I also wonder how different the media and our current concept of social networking will look by the time you reach my age.
Regardless, the selfie will be something that sticks around as mobile phones with cameras, video and internet become more and more entrenched in our lives.
So I thought I'd keep these two selfies, so you can later reflect on what has or hasn't changed about your attitude to capturing yourself (on film as we used to say) and what eventually happens with those images. For now they are part of this little blog about the joy of you.
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