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

I grew up without social media but still took plenty of photographs, albeit we were limited due to needing film and only getting 24 or 36 photos to a reel at a time.

However, now I have a digital camera and my phone and still take many photographs - way more than with film obviously. I guess it's a big interest/hobby for me.

The majority of my photographs aren't for social media, even when taken with a phone. I like taking photographs. I like preserving memories to photograph. I spend time editing them to ensure the light, etc is okay on them. I have them saved on my computer, they appear in the attached digital display thing we have at home, and print an annual photo book of key ones.

It's annoying if people keep getting in your way taking their photographs but I don't see how someone else taking photographs bothers others so much outside of that.

Not everyone is going it for the 'gram 🙄

The problem is that normal people can no longer just go about their lives and enjoy nice views and tourist attractions without these self obsessed idiots getting in the way.

It didn't used to be a thing.

Then it was just the odd narcissist who didn't realise everyone was judging them.

Now it's become normalised.

Death of the west indeed, as a PP said.

Well of course I'm only speaking for me. When did I say I wasn't?

That's one of the many things I don't get about the social media sharers and particularly the family vloggers. Not only taking a grainy video of the firework display at Euro-Disney from the back of the crowd with dozens of heads in the way or their recent attendance at a Taylor Swift concert where they're in the nosebleeds and can't even see the giant screens properly, let alone the stage - but then posting a 30 minute video of it on YT for their followers?

But then I also don't understand why people post and followers watch a 'shopping haul' from Aldi or B and M so I doubt i'm the target audience 😅

I suppose it's the pointlessness of it all too. They are expending all this effort taking hundreds of photos to put a few up online.

It doesn't enrich their lives or have any positive effect on them in any way. They could be doing so much more.

The only thing that they get good at is editing photos.

It's the more to life thing

There's nothing wrong with sharing a real life situation that's related to a topic

How have you missed that I didn’t think it was related, fair enough you do. Agree to disagree.

Most people do, yet you think it means I'm holding on to anger?!

The post I called ironic (which you asked me to explain) & your original post came across as you being quite hurt & a little bitter. That’s just my opinion & again you can disagree.

The OPs 2nd post literally says

“I like photos. I take a few snaps to look back on. As memories. This is totally fine. Memories from places I have particularly enjoyed being.”

Hence why I thought it was weird to compare it to your mum who never photographed you growing up or whatever. Which I’ve already explained.

It's like your pouncing on me and replying to me with a conversation you're having in your own head.

Again I’m baffled by your take, you have responded to my posts & asked me questions. Am I not meant to reply? If you don’t like or agree with my responses that’s fine but the only person I’m conversing with is you. This is surely obvious & presumably you won’t now reply back to me. 😆

Not too bothered about pictures at a beauty spot. However, what gives me the irrational rage is people filming things like concerts and fireworks shows. Just be in the moment and enjoy it 😡 How many times are they really going to watch back that crappy grainy video??

So then the anger could be misplaced. What's allowed them to get to that point? The availability of social media? The improvements in phone technology? Peer pressure? How larger companies have switched how they advertise?

Many of them are raised in this culture so to them it's normal. Everyone outside of this thinks it's ridiculous because we have a before to compare it to

I was sharing an experience related to picture taking and one of the consequences of not taking pictures.

The op had implied she takes no pictures as she shows people Google images of places she has been. After I posted this, she replied to me and it was quickly cleared up.

I'm not sure where you got anger from me in any of this, it's really weird!!!

It's like your pouncing on me and replying to me with a conversation you're having in your own head.

There's nothing wrong with sharing a real life situation that's related to a topic. Most people do, yet you think it means I'm holding on to anger?!

Sorry place, not plsve.

For you maybe, not for others. Why so judgemental? I can think of many worse activities taking.plsve near me than people taking photographs.

Irony? Why?

I'm not angry, far from it, why do you think that?!

Does it really need explaining?

As I’ve said repeatedly I think it’s a weird take to read the OP and link it back to your own experience with your mum. It sounds like you have some unresolved anger and upset over it. That’s all.

I just took a tour of Versailles and loved seeing the instagram preening in the Hall of Mirrors. It reminded me that this is just human nature. But admit to feeling sanctimonious.

I know what you mean op, living in moment but at same time it's wish I'd had this when I was younger.

She has and she has already addressed this. Keep up!

You said your mum didn’t take any photos of anything including family. The OP hasn’t inferred in anyway that she has done this.

Irony? Why?

I'm not angry, far from it, why do you think that?!

Remember the really descriptive words the op used and her admissions of hatred and anger over this?

Or are you just bored and deciding to come at me for entertainment?!

Weird 😅

She said if people ask for photos of places she has been, she shows them Google image photos as she wouldn't have taken any different ones. I took at that as her taking no pictures because it's already there on Google.

And the reason I mentioned my mom is because she also took no pictures because like the OP, she believed they are already there in your memory, except the day came where she began to lose hers and we had nothing to show or to remind her. More of a way to say that photos are important and have a place. It's also perfectly normal to share an experience when it relates to something your posting about.

I get the whole influencer culture and like everyone else find it irritating but the OPs reaction of hatred is quite a strong one, hence why I said it must be something deeper down that needs working on

It's really nefarious. Instagram has turned young people into narcissists - particularly women and plenty of men as well. Instagram and Love Island are the death of culture.

Then there's Tik Tok which has ruined young people's into attention spans - and any other scrolling junkie who uses this Chinese app that is banned there.

It's all very Idiocracy. The west is done.

I know what your trying to say but none of your posts have come across well. You've obviously got a lot of anger inside of you and there's probably something in that that needs investigating and you'd probably then find the insta generation mildly annoying like everyone else as opposed to the hatred your holding onto.

The irony 😆

@YellowphantGrey where?

I read this I like photos. I take a few snaps to look back on. As memories. This is totally fine. Memories from places I have particularly enjoyed being.

I took that to mean the OP takes photos but maybe I’m wrong 😆.

And sorry for sharing my experience of pictures not being taken. I'm happy to report it if it's not meeting the guidelines of the topic?

I said it was a weird take, which it is but you do you.

Its ridiculous isn't it?! And where does the confidence come from to do that?! How have they been raised?!