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More Women Take Selfies than Men

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GETTY 042814 TakingaSelfie?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1398693236681iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — With smartphones available everywhere in the world, it only stands to reason that taking selfies is a global phenomenon.

Selfiecity, a project analyzing these ubiquitous self-portraits that can be found on Instagram, examined 650 selfies out of a total pool of 120,000 from each of the following cities: New York, Moscow, Berlin, Bangkok, and Sao Paulo.

The results? In every city, selfies by women outnumbered those taken by men. In Bangkok, for instance, it was just 1.3 times more. However, Moscow was a different story with women generating 4.6 times more selfies than Russian men.

Other findings included that the average age of the selfie-taker was 23 and that women tend to tilt their heads at a greater angle then men.

Meanwhile, men over 30 uploaded more selfies of themselves on Instagram than women of that same age.

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