Friends and facebook...

[Phentex]

Went to the mountains with some friends last weekend. They had their phones with them the entire time and I thought they were just snapping pictures for later.

We were sitting around a campfire when one of the ladies announced that someone had commented on another lady's facebook page about the s'mores we were eating. I hadn't even finished licking the marshmallow off my hands!

You can't even live in the moment without someone documenting it. I don't understand it.

[arcane1]

1. I've seen friends do that from camping trips. Even during Burning Man this year!

Every little thing they did there was uploaded to Facebook as it was happening. I suppose in one sense it's cool, especially if there is an actual audience keeping track of things. But if it's just a photo album, then why not arrange the photos when the trip is over?

I hope I'm never like that

[Phentex]

7. Yeah, it's just a camera...

and I have no problem with that. It just seems odd to document a s'more immediately, lol.

[bigwillq]

2. I'm a phone/social media addict.

I enjoy documenting my adventures. Social Media is like my diary, for the whole world to see! (or at least to those who choose to follow along!).


I agree, though, that it's a bit much at times, but I am not hurting anyone by doing this. I still engage in meaningful conversations when I am with friends/family.

[Phentex]

8. It wasn't really harmful at all...

I just can't imagine being on the end that gets to see the s'more as an update to my ife.

[Jokerman]

3. Looking at photos from a recent vacation...

we took with two other couples and it became obvious that in every single picture of one of the guys, he's looking into his smart phone.

Seven nights in a fabulous resort on a beautiful beach with good friends, and he spent most of it glued to his phone.

I just don't get it.

[Populist_Prole]

5. I don't get it either

If I had a choice between living and enjoying the moment and relying on only memory in the future, or to have photos of the same time to view forever: I'll pick the former.

I remember some events where a freind of mine spent so much time videoing things, he missed a lot of stuff and asked me what happened. They are so fixated at photoing they don't even "see" something.

This past spring another friend visited after a long drive from nearly accross the country to attend a big spectator event over several days. He was constantly looking at or typing into his smart phone. Missed a lot of good stuff and didn't seem to care that he did. Turns out he was constantly monitoring some big college sports game where he's from and when he found out "his" team lost, he got all depressed and sulky, and left a day earlier than he intended to.

What a waste.

[Phentex]

9. I do think it's an addiction...

there is very little in my life that I MUST KNOW ABOUT or SHARE RIGHT NOW!

[marzipanni]

4. At least it's stored on little memory cards, or a 'cloud' somewhere

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and the future kids or grand kids won't have to go through piles of paper notes, photos, etc. after the social media butterflies bite the dust.
A cloud full of chaff with very little wheat?

My MIL emailed her kids & their spouses from her pleasant retirement apartment asking what she should do with 40,000 slides taken on vacations, holidays, etc., etc.!

On the other hand, I do fear that in the near future, with few photos printed on paper, there won't be much to look at without a device, and the future device probably won't be compatible with the "old-fashioned" mode of storing it.

All slides and movie film deteriorate and a window into history is being lost.
I'm about to get 16 mm home movies, in VHS form, converted to DVD. They were taken by my great uncle and his family in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and were converted to a VHS tape in the 80s, as a gift to my cousin from his wife. Copies were given to that great uncle's nieces, nephews, or their kids. Since quite a lot fits on one DVD, I'll add a VHS tape of my 20-year-old son when he was a baby, taken when we borrowed aunt & uncle's video camera.
I'll probably print some frames on paper, esp. a few of my mom when she was 16 or 17, and my parents, brothers, and me in the 50s!

[Phentex]

10. There is that. But what will it tell my grandkids about me?

That granny liked s'mores? I'd rather share my BBQ with them.

[logosoco]

6. It's like sharing the moment with someone who is not in the same

geographical presence.


But don't miss the actual moment because you were too intent on documenting it.

[Phentex]

11. It happened so fast...

that's part of what was so amusing.

Now, when the scorpion was on the bathroom floor, nobody grabbed a phone. THAT was more interesting than the s'more!

[logosoco]

12. Some of the pictures we see now on the internet make me laugh

because I think "wow, they were in that situation and the first thing they thought of was to take a picture!". I am not that fast to remember we have cameras at our finger tips all the time now.

If I saw a scorpion I would be looking for a cup big enough (maybe even a bucket?) to catch it and get it out of the bathroom. Hopefully no one would be photographing me during that, because I may look a bit frazzled and showing my fake bravery!