About Selfie Stick

I'm from mainland China. Recently, I had a chance to visit Macau, a former Portugal colony known for its reputation as the eastern Las Vegas--or should I say Las Vegas is the western Macau :). The first wierd thing I noticed is practically every tourist on the street, mostly mainlanders, was were holding a selfie sticks. I supposed this gadget was first invented to avoid the need to constantly harassing other people to take pictures for you, for convenience purposes. But I had to admit it's kind of a little bit (Note: Kind of or a little are both fine. But just choose one ^^) annoying seeing hundreds of selfie sticks at the same time with people obliviously posing in front of their cameras in all kinds of body positions. I had thought it was a typical Chinese characteristic thing (again, characteristic or thing are both fine, but choose one ^^), but it wasn't until last night when I accidentally clicked on a video clip of the David Letterman Show featuring Tom Hanks taking a selfie with David--also using a selfie stick!that Then I realized this trend really had caught on worldwide,although I haven't had time to watch that whole episode to obtain his actual opinion on this phenomenon. So what is your opinion on this little gadget? Is it just a fad or something that's going to last?