> As a guy with little kids, I genuinely enjoy going back through old photos. > You might also be surprised by how little you actually remember, and how much

> As a guy with little kids, I genuinely enjoy going back through old photos. > You might also be surprised by how little you actually remember, and how much you enjoy being reminded of life's little events perusing pictures later. And postcards are no replacement for pictures of my wife and kids in Hawaii. I don't disagree with any of this. The problem is not taking pictures, it's taking so many pictures that it causes storage, organization, and experience problems. > We have about 60gb of photos and videos over the last ten years. I don't spend my time viewing life through a viewfinder. The first sentence contradicts the second. > With modern technology, snapping a photo, or a series of photos, is very low friction. It hasn't been extremely difficult to take pictures for most of my lifetime. > Also, I find your tone spectacularly offensive. Stop the presses, we definitely shouldn't be talking about anything that offends anyone! Getting offended does not make anything better ever--it's just a way of ignoring people you disagree with instead of considering differing opinion. If that's what you want to do, you're only hurting yourself. I'm not criticizing you or anyone else as a person. In fact I'm not even telling anyone what to do. If you choose pictures and videos over direct experience, that's your choice to make. I think most people would be happier if they took fewer photos, but I think there's a lot more to happiness than that. If you're happy then there's no need to fix what isn't broken. But if you think you could be happier then there's no reason not to explore conversations about what makes people happy or not.