Are selfies and jazzed-up status updates really part of the nostalgia phenomenon? I think status updates and other posts are actually motivated by reward seeki

Are selfies and jazzed-up status updates really part of the nostalgia phenomenon? I think status updates and other posts are actually motivated by reward seeking: the approval/admiration of others via likes etc. Therefore a photo in the moment is not a nostalgic attempt to capture the present but rather a judgment that the experience itself is less valuable than the social reward that can be gained by sharing it. Selfies are interesting; I think they are slightly related to the mass availability of media. However I don't think it's exactly as the author suggests. Rather, the problem here is that everyone has seen a picture of Niagara. So a selfie is a way of personalizing (and thus making, in a way, exclusive) a well-documented experience.