Why does everything have to be filmed?

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Everything seems to end up on social media these days.

Driving lessons, car boot sellers, shop worker etc

When i go the gym there is always someone filming. Even the instructors in some of the fitness classes film us to promote their classes.

i hate it. I dont want to be put online looking all sweaty.

I agree , must be annoying for a band or whatever to look out and see a mass of phones

I don't like it either.
And think of the coal burnt to make the elecricity to run the data centres that store all our pointless little films. Does my head in.

I agree too, I was on a park and ride bus the other day and someone was filming the journey - we were going into a nice city but this was the ring road and industrial area!

I agree. There was a busker in our local town last week and a group of girls were walking along and started dancing as they walked past. Lovely! Until a woman decided this was some kind of insta moment and decided to film them and me (I was walking behind them). I was so annoyed! I know it's technically legal but I don't want my image to be all over social media. It just seems so rude.

Also people filming big events that have professional tv coverage. Why? Enjoy the event live and go home and watch the professional footage. You've paid hundreds of pounds to watch something through a 3 inch screen.

If you didn’t film it and put it on social then it didn’t happen. Apparently.

I agree OP. Why can’t people enjoy watching the performance or fireworks or whatever with their actual eyes rather than through a screen? Nobody really wants to see the video afterwards anyway.

I wouldn't care if it enhanced life or made us nicer people. But it doesn't. It has exactly opposite effect. Absolutely no manners or time for the people round about them because reality doesnt matter. The only reality is social media.

I agree it is bizarre. I find it a bit sad.

I agree it’s sad. Previously I could live with an illusion that people were sensitive and intelligent, and that is becoming increasingly impossible. Banal sheep seems to be more usual.

I hear you, it pisses me off! I went for lunch in a lovely restaurant with some friends earlier this week, a woman on a nearby table was loudly shouting “Hi guys, just in restaurant having some lunch” and then proceeds to get up and walk around filming everyone.

I think it should be illegal to film someone having a medical episode in public. Can’t think of much worse than seeing yourself or a loved one in distress on social media. That also applies to news reports that show bodies. So disrespectful to those poor families.

When I say this about the gym, I get people whining but it's to check the formmmm... isn't that what a mirror does?

What annoys me most is, they never ask anyone around them if they are okay with it.

Put me off going to gyms. I find it narcissistic.

There is a disgusting page on Facebook dedicated to this shit, called yapp app. They actively encourage people to do it with their drones. Disgusting.

People are so very weird, the awful thing about the internet is that they all find each other, and get worse. It’s so depressing.

Completely agree.
My children were involved in a car accident (they are all fine). The amount of people filming was awful. I told the police i was not comfortable with the filming and they went up to the people and made them wipe the footage.

I know! I feel so sorry for police when you see them being filmed.
I work in a secondary school and yesterday had to step in to break up a physical fight. The first thing I said to my colleague afterwards was, “I wasn’t being filmed, was I?”
Unfortunately it’s par for the course these days.

It's out of hand. My DSis got up out of her seat and filmed part of our DM's funeral service on her phone.

There are even people live streaming in hospitals its awful