Captioning your selfies

Caption this! It was taken in Regents Park one sunday, just hours before the Olympic Closing Ceremony. Two weekends every year enthusiasts of ballroom dancing (Saturdays) and Argentine Tango (Sundays) get together to dance on the Broadwalk of Regents Park in aid of trees for the Royal Parks. Organised by Kele Baker who has choreographed many Strictly Come Dancing tango routines, it was also the last weekend of the 2012 Games.

I was asked to contribute a piece of advice on captioning selfies for another Coca Cola piece. This one didn’t get edited out (the one I’m writing about next week did). I’ve put my full quote below and you can see the article  at 7 ways to get your selfie caption right.

Make the selfie a story. Even if it wasn’t when you took it. So mucking around with friends at lunchtime becomes a surprise… ‘look at who I bumped into today and I DIDN’T even KNOW!

If you want attention try not using too many words and let people imagine the rest – the more ambiguous your selfie is, the more people think they understand. Think Mona Lisa ‘well that was weird but here I am’. Let your friends ask what you mean. Alternately, if you want to show off your holiday shots avoid the plain ‘this us me by the river’, instead find that story.. ‘what do you think of this hat/my muscles/my hair’ or ‘see that bridge in the background? They say if you cross it you’ll get rich. I crossed it 40 times already and I’m still broke lol’