Forget selfies . Those are so 2013 . Make way , instead , for a new way so show your handsome , or lovely , mug to the Internet -- a budding Web movement that combines high-tech geekery with the human desire to be seen . Call them `` dronies . '' As personal drones find their way into more and more hands , folks have begun using the personal , unmanned aircraft , kitted out with video cameras , to add a little flare to the Internet 's ubiquitous `` look at me '' self-shots . `` Let 's be honest , selfies are n't going anywhere , '' said Alexandra Dao , a community development manager at video site Vimeo . `` But the dramatic reveal aspect adds another level of interest . '' There may be no such thing as a `` dronie expert '' just yet . But Dao does claim the distinction of coining the term . About two months ago , she saw that a friend had commented on a video posted to the site by tech entrepreneur Amit Gupta . It was shot on San Francisco 's Bernal Hill , starting with a closeup of Gupta and two friends , then panning up and out to show the San Fran skyline . The friend `` proclaimed it a new kind of shot , '' she said , `` and I jumped in with the suggestion of 'dronie ' . '' A few more dronies popped up the following day , leading Dao to begin collecting them on a new Vimeo channel . From there , it started the march to becoming a Web trend . A Web trend with a silly name ? Sure . But , hey ... it 's no `` owling . '' iReport : Remote aerial photography . Twitter got into the action last month . At the Cannes Lions advertising festival in France , the social-media service garnered some free publicity using drones to create scenic Vine videos of employees with other festival attendees . The first was of `` Star Trek '' actor and social-media star Patrick Stewart , who appears in a new Twitter documentary . Twitter 's not alone . As these things go , some early Web celebs are emerging in the dronie world . The Works family , Josh , Jessa and their son , Jack , sold all their stuff and took off on a permanent road trip in their Airstream bus in 2011 . ( Both parents have jobs that let them work from anywhere ) . They 're documenting the trip with often stunning photos on Instagram and , somewhere along the way , got their own drone . Voila ! The `` first family '' of dronies is born . There was the one three weeks ago from Camp Creek in Oregon , where the drone flies up to showcase the towering trees in the site 's old-growth forest . Or their first , a vertigo-inducing zoom-out on Vance Creek Bridge in Washington , the second-highest built bridge in the United States . It remains to be seen whether dronies will become just another flash in the pan on the fast-twitch Web , or a more enduring Web presence like the venerable animated GIF . Dao says she 's seeing some momentum . `` I 've definitely noticed more interest in using drones for photography and filmmaking , even amongst my friends , '' she said . `` Drones just open up so many possibilities for interesting compositions and they 're a lot more accessible than some of the professional equipment that filmmakers have had to use in the past to get these kinds of shots . ''
A new breed of aircraft -- the ` ` dronie '' -- is hitting the market . Drone pilots are using the Internet to show themselves . The term ` ` dronie '' was coined on video site YouTube . A family shares drone video from their nationwide trip .