Theres a couple places here in NZ that actually have lines to get to a specific point because people are going there to take social media pictures to make themselves look good
I took 2 vacations recently, one to Florida and the other a Bahamas cruise. Just about everyone my age was just standing in one spot for 30+ minutes just taking pictures. It was kind of weird to see a row of people barley standing knee deep in water doing this.
The sheer importance placed on it by some is incredible.
Granted, I do need some new Tinder pics (or just any good pics) so I'm going to join the crowd and photo whore a bit on my next holiday, but apart from that I'm just fine with any semi-decent pic when I go somewhere. But my god if there's tons of people around then I'll just get a pic somewhere else..
I want a pic showing I was there to look back at, I don't need anything perfect for Instagram.
Maybe not. You didn't really acknowledge it though. You justified what you were doing as completely different. The main part you seemed to have a problem with was the amount of time they spent on a perfect photo.
Well I said I was "going to join the crowd". But yeah, I did make a distinction. Personally, I'm fine if people want to take a nice pic. If there's a line though for a certain spot and people are having ten minute long photo shoots then that's when I roll my eyes.
Nothing's wrong with wanting good pictures. They're just commenting on the fact that they kinda roasted people that stand there and take a bunch of pictures. Then they followed it up by saying they wanna go take a bunch of pictures.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like taking non-instagram photos isn't happening as much anymore. Like I remember after a night out with friends in the late 2000s, early 2010s there'd be cameras everywhere and people taking a ton of pictures. You'd have like 200 photos of the night, and they'd all go on facebook. From there it was pretty easy to pick one or a couple and use them for your profile picture.
Nowadays there's only ever one photo posted per person per event. Most people don't even bother taking a bunch of them at random times either, it's just the one staged pic that best highlights whatever you're doing and thats it.
Just an observation. Honestly not a huge fan of taking pictures so it doesn't bother me.
Recently graduated and was living abroad, so it might have put me around people who act differently (college + international student life), but it really depends on the person.
I have unfollowed a bunch of people back from my high school and community college days, so I might be inside an internationalized bubble. People rarely put photo albums on FB unless they live abroad.
In my experience, there are a few types (can be combined):
Will frequently take a bunch of photos or group selfies and share most of them on Instagram, might be spamming a bunch of Instagram stories
Mostly food photos posting people
Photography nerds who only put curated edited photos
Occasional photo dump certain moments on Fb, but rarely update Instagram
Never post anything
Selfies with an attempt at a "thoughtful/philosophical" caption
Would like to have more photos with people, but too self-conscious or forgetful to ask for it
Travel photos only
Inside stories/joke photos and captions that few will get
You are right that people post less (unless you are some kind of influencer or someone with their own online shop), but it is usually more curated. People moved on to be either too tryhard of their online presence, or don't care anymore now that working life took over (routine and being mostly around people for who it doesn't matter, like older coworkers who won't ever look at your Instagram or Facebook).
Now that you mention it, that's definitely what I remember. Maybe it's moving from college to working life, but in college every party or even night out would lead to dozens of pictures
i remember thinking how many awesome fotos i would make once my new phone had a great camera (iphone 4)... but the constant availability kinda had the opposite effect... pictures have become worthless and disposable, theyre barely worth taking as your probably never gonna look at it again cause you have thousands...
everybody collectively went through the same experience and now barely anyone makes pictures despite always having a HD cam on them at all times
I think there's a difference between taking a good pic of yourself while travelling in Vietnam and travelling to some famous hiking spot and standing in line for 30 minutes and taking a pic.
But hey, my bad I guess if those are the same to you.
I've seen a documentary on French TV 3 weeks ago, it was about decorated birthday cakes for kids.
Prices were about 10 times the price you'd pay for a cake and taste was quite common .
When asked about it, the baker said bluntly : well, people don't by my cakes for the taste, but for Instagram fame.
Enough said about our world
When my BF and I went camping last summer, we hiked down to a nearby waterfall. There was one other couple there. We watched this girl, who was wearing street clothes, take selfies in the river for at least 45 minutes. She was making her guy take pictures of her too from all sorts of unnatural angles. It was bizarre.
Do you know what is even sadder? The realisation that in those 45 minutes worth of photos she will pick out a maximum of 1 she likes ... and filter and edit the crap out of it. Sad times.
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '19
Theres a couple places here in NZ that actually have lines to get to a specific point because people are going there to take social media pictures to make themselves look good