AIBU to wonder if people ever watch back videos of events taken on their mobiles?

[Tuilpmouse]

And whether people regret not actually living in the moment?

I agree with you, put the pulse down and be present in the moment. If you’re talking about the funeral procession I also think it’s quite bizarre and disrespectful. It’s all on telly should they want a re-run so it’s a psychological thing rather than wanting to re-watch the event. Since when do people take films and pictures at funerals?!

I wonder that too. I remember being in a London Eye Capsule and there was a girl in who was traveling on her own. She turned her back to the glass and recorded herself looking at the camera. I was unsure why she went on in the first place,

Lots of us manage to hold camera while also "living in the moment".

It's an incredibly self-absorbed way to travel through life, and really inappropriate at a funeral. They're the very same people who tweet 'OMG! I can't believe all those people were killed two miles from where I went to school!' whenever there's a disaster or terrorist attack. Everything is seen through the prism of their presence or proximity, so every event is about them.

I don’t really understand why people are bothered by what other people choose to photograph or film, or why you’d think you are ‘enjoying the moment’ any more than someone who takes a film clip.

I was actually just watching home videos of when I was a child and I’m so grateful to have them!

Photos are often very fake and posed, whereas a video really takes you back to that moment.

I would definitely video today if I went but I don’t get why people video fireworks and things as I doubt they’d ever rewatch them.

There was a study reported in The Times a few years ago, comparing the memory of events of people who had just watched an event, and others who had merely caught it on their phone. Conclusion: those who had merely watched remembered far more, than those using their phones.

I think it sad that so many used their phones, in a real sense they didn't actually see what they had come to watch.

When the giant French street puppets came to Liverpool a few years ago. The chief puppeteer (?) was screaming at the crowd 'put your phone down, live the moment'.....and nearly everyone did !

It was normal even years ago. Look at many of the significant events 20 years ago and you will see many, MANY, people having cameras and camcorders. I am pretty sure there were thousands and thousands of cameras last time there was a state funeral similar size. I do wonder if the previous gens then moaned about it same way like some now do about the phones😁

Tourists were also always recording loads. Hence why we have so many angles of Towers falling etc....

I find it irritating that there is an expectation that you won’t ‘get in the way’ of their videos etc. I was overseas recently at a well known magnificent palace with amazing 1000 year old mosaics, diamond encrusted daggers etc. and every other person had their mobile out virtually all the time - no sense of others, or their surroundings - so naff and intrusive. Buy a postcard if you feel the need to prove you were there.

This 100% op. The sight of hundreds holding up their phones rather than just watching and being in the moment really saddened me. And I found it disrespectful actually. Particularly people scrolling on their phones during the 2 minutes silence. The BBC has filmed it all so beautifully, who the heck cares that youve got your own crummy footage of it - put your phones away!!

Watching it on tv Ive particularly enjoyed the bits without the crowds - no phones, no clapping, no cheering, nobody throwing flowers - its a funeral - nobody should be clapping or cheering at a funeral.

My mum would definitely look at this kind of photo/video of an event, even if her one was worse than broadcast images.

I know I wouldn’t, so I don’t take many photos that don’t involve the people that matter to me.

Perfectly put

so depressing