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I met the neighbors who talked about their trip in Europe, and then proceeded to show me a 2 minute video of fireworks in Paris off their phone.
It wasn't even like a good shot or framing, nor could I tell it was Paris. It was just a random hotel room, and in the background, fireworks.
She then put her phone away and said, "Neat, huh?"
I don't know if it was just peak comedy or if I was being Punk'd or something.
I once had someone show me loads of photos of their holiday. Just....why?
It's a time honoured thing from back in the day when you took your camera with you on holiday, your roll of film had 36 exposures that you had to ration and think carefully about where and when to use them.
So when you got back and had your photos developed and printed, you had 36 photos to share with people.
Now you can take thousands of pictures per day with your phone and there's no life to any of them as you force people to swipe through them.
Big tech tries to help, automatically making short videos with meh music and a few questionable photo choices. Perhaps sometimes better than swiping through 200 unsorted photos, made more likely if removing/replacing bad photos accordingly.
I think Apple can do it on device if I’m not mistaken, which mostly removes the creepy factor.
I do like how my refusal to ever albumize/tag anything has been given such a soft landing!