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> I find these types of criticisms of photography just part of the hipster "backpacker mentality": [...] I see a sunset and I don't upload it to Instagram. Oh
by hawkice 11y ago
> I find these types of criticisms of photography just part of the hipster "backpacker mentality": [...] I see a sunset and I don't upload it to Instagram.
Oh no! I guess I became a hipster! Please, I'll download Instagram, I'm not trying to be snooty, I'm just a guy. I appreciate things like sunsets, I didn't know I had to share them. Most places have sunsets. Maybe I can tweet that you should look at your own? No, to be safe, I'll post an Instagram every day. That way I won't be seen as condescending by random people on Hacker News.
- centizen 11y agoIf you don't want to use Instagram, that's perfectly fine. Just don't pass judgement on those who do, that's all the above poster is saying.
- hawkice 11y agoThe above poster was saying there is a subculture of people who, in order to feel superior, conspicuously avoid posting on Instagram about a sunset. This is an absurd characterization. There is no place in the galaxy in which it is conspicuous to not post beautiful things to Instagram. I have no judgments for users of Instagram, but a pocket full of confusion for someone who assigns a motive and subculture to everyone who doesn't live their lives exactly the way they do. It's provincial and sad, ironically so, considering that in context, that these people are documenting the travels to a foreign land.
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