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Great article. I laughed. I wonder if this is mostly a matter of indiscriminate visibility and a lack of friction? In the old days, there was that moment when

Great article. I laughed. I wonder if this is mostly a matter of indiscriminate visibility and a lack of friction? In the old days, there was that moment when visiting someone's house (friend, relative maybe) and the topic of family vacations came up. Then someone suggests the slide projector. You could almost feel the silent "uggh" from the people who were not on the vacation. The worst part would be the unknown length of the slide show. (ten minutes? two hours?) But setting up the slide projector was a fair effort, so it could easily be put off "until next time you come over" (phew! Dodged a bullet!) Now you just pop them up on FB and they are there for all to see. Compound that with the fact that FB's sharing controls are so complicated that actually just sharing with a particular subset (immediate family, grandparents, etc) is nigh impossible for ordinary mortals and there you are! Bazillions of terrible family photos a click away, or worse: a scroll away, no click needed. Physical photos did have some advantages: at least they could be avoided! ;D

losteverything 9y ago
<Then someone suggests the slide projector. You could almost feel the silent "uggh" from the people who were not on the vacation. Still have our old carousel with "ten best" and latest trip. But what that also did was drastically reduce family shared memories and stories to those precious slides. Reliving again for each generation. Now, ubiquity of photos equalize all events to the same stature and,imo, lose group family memories of those few great events (whether or not they were indeed great)
watwut 9y ago
I don't understand how facebook picture posting is worst then physical if this is your attitude towards them. If they would set up projector, you would have to either watch it or say openly you dont want to watch them. Meanwhile, on facebook you just scroll past all that. Eventually you can click on something other people post and facebook will show you more of that in the future. Moreover people typically post them in albums. If you dont click album. You dont spend time watching pictures. Unless of course, mere remainder of existence of such thing annoys you.

losteverything 9y ago

<Then someone suggests the slide projector. You could almost feel the silent "uggh" from the people who were not on the vacation. Still have our old carousel with "ten best" and latest trip. But what that also did was drastically reduce family shared memories and stories to those precious slides. Reliving again for each generation. Now, ubiquity of photos equalize all events to the same stature and,imo, lose group family memories of those few great events (whether or not they were indeed great)

watwut 9y ago

I don't understand how facebook picture posting is worst then physical if this is your attitude towards them. If they would set up projector, you would have to either watch it or say openly you dont want to watch them. Meanwhile, on facebook you just scroll past all that. Eventually you can click on something other people post and facebook will show you more of that in the future. Moreover people typically post them in albums. If you dont click album. You dont spend time watching pictures. Unless of course, mere remainder of existence of such thing annoys you.