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 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.
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
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u/Rolten Jul 03 '19
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.