Former president Bill Clinton dissected what a “selfie” has meant to society — and that it has “changed the social etiquette,” he said, as Bloomberg reported Monday.
Clinton posed with audience members at a rally for Hillary Clinton, his wife who is running to be the Democratic nominee for President, this weekend as Bloomberg grilled him on the number of photographs he has smiled for.
“Once people wanted to shake hands with you, now I think it’s more important to have shaken hands with you,” Clinton said, with a laugh. “That’s what the selfie is.”
“But it’s interesting,” he continued. “In a way I like it, though, because it’s democratized record-keeping of memories — because if you can afford a cell phone, you’ve got a camera, and the camera will operate at a fairly high resolution, with a fairly good amount of clarity, and if you need to — for some reason — you can print it out.”
Clinton proceeded to talk about how cameras have changed.
Watch a video of the exchange.
