This might sound like it’s just my introversion, or that I don’t have social life, but i also have extroverted friends, who don’t need to photograph everyone when they’re partying.
Like you go the social event, you talk with people, you have fun with them and forget about taking photos or have a 1-2 selfies with someone.
But imagine you’re at your friends birthday party or house party and you just take photos everytime something happens, like not only when your friend blows out the candles. You document everyone dancing, talking, drinking, people you don’t even know existed before, having like 30+ photos of them in your phone to later make a post out of it.
Imagine having all your ig account about random people you just tag to these photos afterwards, not talking to them again.
I’m not close to anyone who does it, these are always colleagues from old parties, that i followed on ig. I just open the app and see 10+ photos of 30 randoms drinking vodka and dancing. And when you go to their accounts, almost all their posts are about that. Documenting parties like they haven’t really took part in them, just standing near and taking photos. And these people don’t even look good on those photos, it’s like the fact that they were at the party and that the party in question happened was the most important.
The other thing is, i also fell victim to this in the past, being taged on colleagues posts from parties. There’s maybe 1 photo when i look good, others are so shitty, and have no control to just delete them, becase these are from their accounts.
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IG in general is weird to me. Especially if you’re over like… 25. Just give it up
I understand what you mean, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve felt the opposite more and more. As long as it’s not killing the flow of things it’s great to document your life and have something to remember those times. I wish I had more photos of myself during college when I was just worried about “enjoying the moment” because now it feels like hugs chunks of time missing. You don’t know how long these people will be in your life or how you may change in the future. Having lots of photos to reminisce over is something I’ve appreciated the last few years. And it’s not like you have to look at them every day or anything.
I agree with this to a certain extent. Photos are fine, but not every 2 minutes.
It’s been like this before social media. Just with bulkier equipment… I was born in 1993 and have home movies of blowing out candles, smokey footage of house parties and dancing…
I love looking back on them now I’m older, or even photos asking my mum “who’s that person” “oh that was an ex girlfriend of your uncles in laws hairdresser, she ended up having an affair with the priest.” And enjoys telling me stories.
Life is nice to document imo, the more candid the better.
I don’t really care about what I look like in photos like that – I’m usually having fun and look like it. It’s part of the charm.