To Feel Angered by People Taking So Many Photos for the 'Gram...?

If you're going to spend so much time clenching your arse over what other people are doing with their own time and energy, at least do something productive like photobomb as many of them as you can.

Who cares? The fact that you're allowing them to distract you from your far more authentic enjoyment of the location is your own problem. I like to live in the moment too, so I do. You, apparently, spend all your time being angry at people who don't like to experience places just like you do. Doesn't sound much like living in the moment to me.

This is being called out a lot. Look up Joey Swoll, some of the videos he's posted up on tikok of people behaving like this are a real eye opener.

The wonderful opportunity of technology to improve everyone's life has turned into a narcissism fest and entered us all into an eternal high school popularity contest.

A lot of us have felt grief about the direction of society and what's been lost

You're at the anger stage of this grief, I just laugh about how ridiculous it is now. Try joeybtoonz on youtube or other people who mock it, may help.

I don’t feel rage just bemusement. And it’s so widespread- such weird behaviour. People have even fallen off cliffs to their deaths prancing round for the perfect shot. It feels very …unbritish.

I can appreciate how you feel OP. I recently went to a local event, which was lovely, but it was so annoying as we had to shuffle along at a snail's pace, and keep stopping while those in front of us took photos of absolutely everything, including the inevitable selfies.

Photography (mainly film) is a hobby of mine, but I stopped taking my camera with me a lot of the time - I would rather live in the moment and enjoy it. Spending all your time taking photos actually means you miss out on a lot, but people these days just don't seem to get that.

Yes all this!!

I was recently at a theme park, parents getting on rides ignoring young children then getting there phones out putting it on selfie mode video then recording the whole ride with them looking at there child through a phone screen with a manic grin on their face.

Ride ends, phone put away and child ignored again 🤷‍♀️

The difference was, we took a photo and that was that. We didn’t know how it would turn out until we had the film developed. Nowadays people keep taking it 20 times because they see some imperfection.

I was at a concert recently and the girl beside me spent the WHOLE concert filming herself dancing and staring at herself on the camera. She could've saved herself a fortune and just did that at home. She wasn't even watching the act at all, it was so bizarre.

The worst is…. When a few in your group put photos on it and you don’t know or look good! I hate having my photo taken and only a few make it on to my profile . I will go away with my friends for a weekend- say to a spa and one will always be photo ing something and then I’ll be looking all double chinned and oily from a massage and I find it up loaded to social media the next day !!! I now ask people to take my photos down!

*holiday photos I find less annoying that the cloying coupley ones tbh.

And I have a lovely DH - I'm not bitter at seeing other couples, it's just the show offy ness of it all I hate

The one I find most annoying is couples.

Every couple I know who looks incredibly loved up on social media has issues. The photos/videos are entirely for the benefit of other people

I think this also- like who plays it back at home and watches it ?!

However I do hate how vain everyone is. When I grew up the worst thing you could be was a poser and I detest that posers are the norm now.

This is what I find weird, growing up vanity, vacuousness, bragging, etc were seen as negative & in real life I think to some extent they still are but on SM these are all positives 😆

I get where you're coming from OP. As a PP has mentioned I don't stop if someone is taking (insta) photos anymore, I just walk through the frame. And I'm not even sorry ;)

These airheads don't give me the rage though, I kinda feel sorry for them. What is missing from their life that they have to have an insta perfect life?

I have a bestie whose daughter is a very famous influencer, and I don't envy either of them at all. The daughter gets very angry if mum isn't looking as glam as possible when they meet.

I actually sometimes enjoy watching them. It's like being in a human zoo.

As another PP suggests it may be worth you digging deep and finding why it annoys you so much!

Interesting discussion though.

As a side note I went to school in a very touristy place and the Japanese and American tourists loved to take photographs of us in our school uniforms! Probably wouldn't be allowed now!!

I just think twat and move on

However I did tell a man at ballet last month to put his phone down so rude!!!
And he wasn't even young

Yes I agree. My 16 year old was at the gym the other day and an older man was pissing around on a piece of equipment taking photos and filming himself, when my son went over to use the equipment thinking the the guy had finally finished he came running over and started to aggressively shout at my son. Wish gyms would put a stop to this but they want the free publicity.

I found it really rude. The person on the bus had no idea it was happening

When the entire point of the experience is the 'gram then there is no purpose other than self-obsession.

I'm reminded of the cartoon in which the diner asks the waiter, "Is the raviolli photogenic?"

You went along with it?! I worked at a Insta-worthy visitor attraction about 8 years ago. We'd usually take photos if visitors asked us politely. Only one time was the photo deemed Not Good Enough and I was asked to take it again... "No thanks, I'm not your photographer!"

I can only imagine the hordes of nutty aspiring influencers bothering my former colleagues with this nonsense now.

Well, how would you have been treated in your family - by parents/siblings - if you had behaved like that?

Did you get get told you were a show-off, or shallow, or anything along those lines?

How would you have been treated if you were into beauty or fashion or selfies when young? Would that have been scorned?

I wonder if part of you wishes you had the freedom to do some of what they do, not to care they look like idiots, or self obsessed, or whatever.

Get over yourself and just let people be

It's depressing that none of these people can actually enjoy anything simple like sitting in nature and observing everything happening around them.

YANBU

I could have written this.

it makes me just feel like I can’t be bothered to even go to certain types of events and it will just depress/annoy me

@Babbahabba there is joy to be had in a pointless rant into the void, though. Especially when it goes completely unphotographed.

I don't think it's ok to just sit by and mindlessly accept that everyone is a phone zombie now. I like to protest these things, however futile.

I have found as I get older that I just really don't give a shite what other people are doing. If they want to spend their time taking pictures for instagram, let them get on with it. I don't understand why it would bother you so much. Get on with your own life and don't worry about what other people are doing.