If you have a smartphone, you’re probably familiar with the term selfie. A selfie is a photo that you take of yourself with your phone. Oxford Dictionaries added the word to its online dictionary (but not its printed one) this year, and named it their word of the year for 2013 after its usage jumped 17,000% in the past year, according to Reuters.

While selfies are coming into vogue with the rise of the smartphone, the act of taking a selfie has actually been around for a lot longer than smartphones, or even cell phones. Photo booths were taking selfies long before they made it into the dictionary, and long before they were being uploaded to Facebook and Twitter. There’s something to be said for the approach a photo booth takes to a selfie. While the principle is the same at heart, taking a selfie with a photo booth is a decidedly rarer occasion than taking a selfie with your phone. This is what makes a photo booth special. While smartphones have brought with them many conveniences that we now take for granted, it’s important to remember that we couldn’t always snap selfies to our heart’s content. So the next time you take a seat in the booth take the time to savor the moment, and you may find that you just took your new favorite selfie.

At Kingdom Photobooth, we are a professional photo booth design company, not a couple of guys making booths in their garage as a hobby. You are invited to visit the factory and see the incredible quality of the product we sell and meet the people who build them. Our engineers are the best of the best and are always seeking new ways to make your Photo King more profitable for you. Kingdom Photo Booths can be found in twelve countries, four continents and all fifty of the good old United States.

We have an incredibly well trained support staff which answers the phone during regular business hours and live, emergency Concierge Technical support until Midnight east coast time Monday through Saturday. All of our state-of-the-art photo booth components come with at least a one year warranty, and the computer and touch screen have a three year warranty. We offer advanced replacements so if anything ever happens, we ship you a new part immediately to keep you up and running. We’re dedicated to giving you a unique and fantastic customer service experience.

We offers the fastest photo booth with the most advanced photo booth software on the market. Renting a photo booth for weddings, a photo booth for corporate events, or a photo booth for weddings is easy with a portable photo booth from the leading supplier of photo booths, Kingdom Photobooth. Keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/11/18/selfie-named-word-of-the-year-2013/3634727/