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Inevitable by-product of a highly networked society? I saw a similar, though somewhat more interpretable, situation at Alamere Falls (1.5 hrs north of SF, sout
by glup 10y ago
Inevitable by-product of a highly networked society?
I saw a similar, though somewhat more interpretable, situation at Alamere Falls (1.5 hrs north of SF, south end of Point Reyes): a thousand high school students from all over the Bay Area out in a National Seashore where you generally expect to see a hundred hikers tops, heavy on the retired profs in Audobon t-shirts and NPR-steeped Marin mushroom enthusiasts. According to one of the park guards, it is now like this all the time. The park guards get asked all the time by the new visitors 'where is this?'as the visitors point to an HDR, oversaturated picture on Snapchat or Instagram. And every weekend new pictures are posted, and the next week another cohort comes.