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SHOW.
JEANNE MOOS HAS MORE.
>> WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS
PICTURE?
IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY OF US.
>> MY MOM, MY GRANDMOTHER, MY
AUNT WOULD ALL PULL SOMETHING
LIKE THAT.
>> SHE THOUGHT HER POINT AND
CLICK CAMERA WAS POINTED AT THE
OLYMPIC HOCKEY RINK WHERE
SLOVENIA AND RUSSIA WERE
BATTLING IT OUT.
INSTEAD OF SHOOTING HOCKEY,
SHE'S LOOKING INTO THE LENS AND
SHOOTING HER OWN EYEBALL.
>> THAT'S SAD.
NOT MY GENERATION.
>> THE EYEBALL HAS BECOME THE
SECOND MOST FAMOUS EYE AT THE
SOCHI OLYMPICS.
SECOND ONLY TO BOB COSTAS'
PINKEYE.
HE'S NOW BACK AT WORK, HE HAD TO
ENDURE PIRATE JOKES AND
COMPARISONS TO S TERMINATOR.
HIS EYE INFECTION INSPIRED A
FLIP BOOK.
SINCE IT STARTED OUT IN HIS LEFT
EYE, OF COURSE, THAT EYE HAD TO
HAVE ITS OWN TWITTER ACCOUNT,
NATURALLY WITH A TWITTER HANDLE
FCOSTASLEFTEYE.
AND SINCE IT SPREAD TO BOTH
EYES, BOTH EYES HAD TO TWEET.
NOW THE SAME GOES FOR THE
EYEBALL SHOT CAPTURED BY RUSSIAN
TV AT THE HOCKEY GAME.
WHO HASN'T TAKEN AN ACCIDENTAL
SELFY.
>> I TRIED TO TAKE A VIDEO OF MY
SISTER AND IT ENDED UP BEING ONE
OF ME.
>> HOW DID YOU LOOK?
>>.
>> I DO IT SOMETIMES I'M TAKING
PICTURES AND I'M LIKE, DID I
JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF MYSELF?
>> BUT HEY YOU DON'T ALWAYS END
UP ON THE RIGHT END.
YOU MAY MISS THE MOMENT.
THIS IS A DAD TRYING TO CAPTURE
HIS DAUGHTER BEING PROPOSED TO.
IN THE AGE OF THE SELFIE IT'S
ALL ABOUT ME, ME, ME.