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> A year from now nobody will care about what I did at 9:06 AM while waiting in line at the coffee bar. In 15 years you might, though! When I read chat logs fr
by furyofantares 10y ago
> A year from now nobody will care about what I did at 9:06 AM while waiting in line at the coffee bar.
In 15 years you might, though! When I read chat logs from 15 years ago, a lot is mundane, but a lot either serves as a wonderful memory trigger or is a completely alien artifact from a person I don't remember being, and I don't believe I could have guessed in advance which chats would end up in which category. I expect the same will be true of photography.
- copperx 10y agoThat a great point which is missed by so many technologists. It's impossible to know if what you created today will be important later, be it a photo, a blog post, a voice recording, or an email. I've found invaluable emails in my Gmail inbox written a decade ago. Maybe that silly snapchat pic you took today with your cousin is the last picture you'll have of her. Who knows.
- dzmien 10y agoAgreed. I have tens of thousands of digital photos from the past 12 years of my life, all of which I uploaded to Google's online photo service. It has the cool ability to search for pictures based on content (e.g. sunsets, dogs, specific people, among many other things) and it is organized by date. I love looking back on my life in pictures. Even the most mundane photos can stir up delightful memories. With massive amounts of storage available on the cheap, I rarely delete photos.
- coldtea 10y agoExactly. Nobody cares even now what you did at "9:06 AM while waiting in line at the coffee bar" -- regardless of whether such photos get Likes or not. But you, and others persons in the photos, might care.