Here in 2014, the selfie has shown no signs of decline. Type #selfie into the Instagram search engine and it will turn up 89,044,418 posts (at time of press - a number that increased by over eight million since I started writing this article) and counting. #Me is the third most popular hashtag on Instagram, with well over 200 million posts, and examples of global selfie madness abound, from funeral selfies (which, according to a newspaper in Alabama, are also known as "corpsies"), to crying selfies (look it up on Buzzfeed, and feel simultaneously horrified and transfixed, sort of like watching a car crash), to the ubiquitous duck face selfie (for some reason still not illegal in any countries - I checked).