{"id":115991,"date":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=115991"},"modified":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"selfie-police-a-chance-to-be-selfless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/selfie-police-a-chance-to-be-selfless\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfie Police: a chance to be selfless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"imported-author\">Noelle Johansen, staff writer<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Some people take them daily, hourly or every few minutes. Others wait for a colorful background or wardrobe change. Yet others find them tasteless, vain and unnecessary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">What are they? They’re <span data-scayt_word=\"selfies\" data-scaytid=\"1\">selfies<\/span> – and they are everywhere.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">But what if <span data-scayt_word=\"selfies\" data-scaytid=\"2\">selfies<\/span> suddenly became a very selfless option?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">That’s the goal of the <span data-scayt_word=\"Selfie\" data-scaytid=\"3\">Selfie<\/span> Police, a new social trend created by Chas Barton, 24, and Dustin Locke, 25, by inviting <span data-scayt_word=\"selfie\" data-scaytid=\"4\">selfie<\/span> takers to fine themselves $1 per <span data-scayt_word=\"selfie\" data-scaytid=\"5\">selfie<\/span>. Every dollar raised goes to <span data-scayt_word=\"Vittana\" data-scaytid=\"6\">Vittana<\/span>, a non-profit organization that provides micro-loans to college students in Third World countries, Barton said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Barton and Locke formulated the idea in a 24-hour creativity competition at BYU a year ago, Locke said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“We talked until three in the morning, went to bed, came back in the morning,” he said. “We kind of hit at the idea all day and couldn’t think of anything. Then, about two hours before pitch time, we thought of the idea.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">They took second place in the competition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Locke said the idea of the competition was to connect nonprofit Vittana with the Millennial generation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Selfies are a very Millennial thing and getting kids to college is a very Millennial thing,” Locke said. “So we’re connecting people with similar interests, just in very different places.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The idea did not develop into something concrete for several months until selfies began to take over social media, Locke said. The Oxford Dictionary named “selfie” the word of the year for 2013. Oxford Dictionary defines a selfie as a picture taken of oneself, by oneself and generally uploaded to various platforms of social media sites.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Just this fall we started seeing the buzz of it with selfies,” Locke said. “We kind of decided we had to jump on it and that we were kind of dumb for not doing it beforehand.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The website selfiepolice.org with its tagline “You owe humanity a dollar,” launched on Jan. 7. Within the first day, the site received more than 1,000 hits, Barton said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Launch day was pretty awesome,” Barton said. “We put it out there and just started trying to blow up all of our social media accounts.” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">They primarily targeted audiences through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size:\n 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The influence was widespread.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“There was a lot of local activity in terms of Utah and surrounding areas,” Barton said. “But looking at Google analytics for the site, we reached all but three states.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">According to the site, the Selfie Police has raised $1,403 so far, equaling 1,403 selfies paid in full. Vittana recognized the efforts through a tweet about the Selfie Police on Jan. 8, calling it “brilliant.” Donations are made through a PayPal link on the site. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Kevin Meacham, USU\/SA service center vice president, jumped on the selfie train recently, though he said he was reluctant at first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“I’m not a big fan of posting selfies,” Meacham said. “I think they’re really stupid and absurd.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Meacham, who shares a mutual friend with Locke, said the charitable spin of the Selfie Police changed his opinion. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“I think definitely it takes a positive spin on it, and if I can see it’s going toward a greater cause and it’s a bigger picture and it’s fun and games, then yeah, I mean, it changes my perspective of the whole idea of it,” Meacham said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">He posted his selfie on his Twitter feed, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“That will probably be the only selfie that I ever post,” Meacham said. “But if it’s going toward a good cause, then I’m all for it.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Locke said he isn’t much of a selfie guy either, but his co-founder has a different opinion of them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“We almost had to have an intervention with Chas last year,” Locke said. “He actually went back and paid for every one of his selfies.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Barton did not deny Locke’s claim. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;\">“I enjoy the occasional <\/span>selfie<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;\">,” Barton said. <\/span>“Selfies<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;\"> are wonderful. You just need to embrace them.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lauren McCabe, a sophomore in family consumer sciences education, called the idea innovative and clever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Selfies are kind of silly and I don’t take selfies a lot,” McCabe said. “But I might start taking a selfie just so I can Selfie Police myself so people will pay money to donate to this awesome charity. College is really important to me, and I’m passionate about helping others to have that opportunity also, and this is just a really simple way that a lot of people can donate.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); backg\nround-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Locke said they’d like to raise at least $20,000 for Vittana.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Our plan is when we have enough followers, when our army of Selfie Police is big enough … we’re going to turn and use that force to call out higher profile people, like celebrities,” Barton said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">There is a list of the Selfie Police most-wanted on selfiepolice.org, including selfie-prone stars such as Jimmy Fallon, Lebron James and Beyonce. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Justin Bieber, in particular,” Barton said. “We’re going to take him down, get him to join the cause, pay up for all of his selfies. He owes quite a bit of money.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Meacham said he believes celebrity involvement is the key to success for the Selfie Police. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“In my eyes, if they do that, then game over,” he said. “It’s going to take off.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Selfie Police has reached local and national attention through coverage by forums like KSL and The Huffington Post. Meacham said he’d like to see USU become a selfie-policed campus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“Hopefully it catches on with our campus and we kind of take it in,” he said. “It’s going to a great cause, so the more people that kind of get into it, the better it’s going to be.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Barton agreed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">“We’ve made it okay for everybody to post a selfie now,” he said. “In fact, it’s the most charitable thing you could do.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The Selfie Police can be found on Facebook, or on Twitter and Instagram under selfie___police – three underscores – and under the hashtag #selfiepolice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6f29bfa2-996b-ecff-7b73-af484cf909ba\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">–<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">noelle.johansen@<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">aggiemail<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">.usu.edu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\">\t<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;\">twitter: <\/span>@broelle<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noelle Johansen, staff writer Some people take them daily, hourly or every few minutes. 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