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This is a pretty useless and unnecessary attack. Sunsets make up a very large percentage of Instagram, Snapchat, and FB photos shared at my university, which sh
by hkailahi 12y ago
This is a pretty useless and unnecessary attack. Sunsets make up a very large percentage of Instagram, Snapchat, and FB photos shared at my university, which shows apparent social value.
Sure you may appreciate the experience of watching a sunset live, but clearly the social sharing aspect may be more important to others.
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- normloman 12y agoAre you really gonna argue that sunsets aren't beautiful, and merely a form of social currency?
- hkailahi 12y agoWhat? I never said sunsets weren't beautiful. That's why people share them. I don't think of them as just a social bridge as the previous poster, but I was merely stating that sharing them can be the biggest value seen by others.
- jkestner 12y agoMy original remark was a bit tongue in cheek - here we really can define every life experience in terms of engagement metrics. Aside from sharing, we like to photograph things as some sort of time-space marker for ourselves, even if we never do anything with it. "This is memorable, so I should take a photo to affirm that." That's why everyone takes a goddamn photo of the Eiffel Tower.
- prawn 12y agoNo, the branch of the discussion is regarding sunsets in the context of social media/apps. Outside of that, they can be any number of things to a variety of people.