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Are you really gonna argue that sunsets aren't beautiful, and merely a form of social currency?

• hkailahi 12y ago
  What? 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 ago
    My 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 ago
  No, 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.