I’ve was thinking about socialising, and what it means in our lives today and what it used to mean. I remember all studying theory about groups and communities forming, and the need to feel like we belong to something and to have shared goals and the forming and norming stages of dynamic relationships.
However something that has been making me wonder recently is the value of the experiences we share today and the evidence we produce to remind ourselves of who we are friends with and develop our social status.
With the wonders of digital cameras and website like dontstayin.com and facebook the experience of going out had become almost synonymous with the after evidence of the night, and the status symbol of having a certain amount of friends belonging to various “groups” and networks.
I starting thinking about all this when I realised that the camera my dad brought me for xmas 2005 has been used a lot for nights out with my friends, yet little evidence of pictures taken during the day.
Whereas before you may have a couple of films developed from a two week holiday abroad, which would equal 60 photo’s (if you’re lucky).
Nowadays over 100+ can be the normal output of a night on the tiles, and probably one of the only things to remind us where we were, and who we were with. (ok so this really may be an extreme example- but it does happen)
I know its not just me and people I know who do it, and my the wonders of social media we can share, collaborate, tag and comment on various picture we choose to broadcast to whoever wants to see it.
It seems like everyone wants there fair share of fame these days and you now even have peoples “model” tendencies coming out with self portrait pictures and pouting to themselves and a camera, in the hopes that some model scout will discover them (this isent me by the way).
Its just made me want to compare my social setting with that of my parents, the pictures I have of them from when they were my age are few in numbers yet extremely valuable, however I have well over 4,000 pictures files on my pc yet I wonder which ones will really be the make up of my memories in the future?
Im sure im just being overly philosophical, and I do think digital camera are good, its just the motives different generations have for the excessive memory cards needed to fuel constant picture taking that could easily translate a lot about our social settings.
However something that has been making me wonder recently is the value of the experiences we share today and the evidence we produce to remind ourselves of who we are friends with and develop our social status.
With the wonders of digital cameras and website like dontstayin.com and facebook the experience of going out had become almost synonymous with the after evidence of the night, and the status symbol of having a certain amount of friends belonging to various “groups” and networks.
I starting thinking about all this when I realised that the camera my dad brought me for xmas 2005 has been used a lot for nights out with my friends, yet little evidence of pictures taken during the day.
Whereas before you may have a couple of films developed from a two week holiday abroad, which would equal 60 photo’s (if you’re lucky).
Nowadays over 100+ can be the normal output of a night on the tiles, and probably one of the only things to remind us where we were, and who we were with. (ok so this really may be an extreme example- but it does happen)
I know its not just me and people I know who do it, and my the wonders of social media we can share, collaborate, tag and comment on various picture we choose to broadcast to whoever wants to see it.
It seems like everyone wants there fair share of fame these days and you now even have peoples “model” tendencies coming out with self portrait pictures and pouting to themselves and a camera, in the hopes that some model scout will discover them (this isent me by the way).
Its just made me want to compare my social setting with that of my parents, the pictures I have of them from when they were my age are few in numbers yet extremely valuable, however I have well over 4,000 pictures files on my pc yet I wonder which ones will really be the make up of my memories in the future?
Im sure im just being overly philosophical, and I do think digital camera are good, its just the motives different generations have for the excessive memory cards needed to fuel constant picture taking that could easily translate a lot about our social settings.
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Good for people to know.
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