Travel on Social Media

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you post your travel photos on social media? Do you enjoy seeing travel pictures from other friends?

Yes. Yes. It's what's done today.

What I *don't* do is make Instagram-worthy photography a central goal of my trips, however.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love seeing photos from friends. I do post photos on social media.

I have to admit that watching Bling Ring on how people robbed Paris Hilton's house based on social media postings made me feel more tentative about posting photos. But I only post on Facebook.

I know this bothers some and makes them jealous. But they can block me if they don't want to see it.

I love seeing photos from places I'll never make it to. So fun.

Jealous? No. But posting travel photos on social media can make you a mockery.

??? I don't follow.

I can't imagine anyone on my friends group being so threatened, small and petty and insecure so as to attempt to mock my travel. I keep better company than that. YMMV.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love seeing photos from friends. I do post photos on social media.

I have to admit that watching Bling Ring on how people robbed Paris Hilton's house based on social media postings made me feel more tentative about posting photos. But I only post on Facebook.

I know this bothers some and makes them jealous. But they can block me if they don't want to see it.

I love seeing photos from places I'll never make it to. So fun.

Jealous? No. But posting travel photos on social media can make you a mockery.

Wow. You sound mean. I don't mock my friends.

You are receiving yourself. We all do that. But I will plaster on a smile when I see you in the car pool line and chuckle under my breath about your trip to the Amalfi Coast or USVI or wherever. And I’m not alone.

Yeah, this isn't normal behavior. Were you born wrong or is this character defect of yours learned behavior?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I post pics from my travels, yes, because I travel to interesting places. I know it makes some people jealous, but whatever.

OMG! Look at Karen posting from Paris. I wish I was her. She is eating moules-frites and has a Louis Vuitton bag. I could never dream of that. She is so amazing.

This sort of attitude and even being on social media in the first place are incompatible. Ergo, the attitude is posturing to cover up severe feelings of inadequacy and jealousy. It's a defense mechanism for insecurity, and everyone sees right through it.

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

It definitely isn't new, because I'm old enough to remember those slide shows. But people definitely cringed at those, too.

Travel is wonderful, but sharing a handful of trip photos is plenty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

It definitely isn't new, because I'm old enough to remember those slide shows. But people definitely cringed at those, too.

Travel is wonderful, but sharing a handful of trip photos is plenty.

Isn't that what we're talking about? Sharing a handful of photos on FB or Inst or whatever? And that, for some reason, has triggered some highly insecure snowflake who goes on about how she would mock those posters, thinking that's some kind of flex?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

It definitely isn't new, because I'm old enough to remember those slide shows. But people definitely cringed at those, too.

Travel is wonderful, but sharing a handful of trip photos is plenty.

Yep, I’m early 40s and I still remember how much my parents/aunts/uncles would gripe about misguided relatives showing slideshows of their travels at family get togethers when I was little. It was cringe then and cringe now.

[Anonymous]

Actually I loved those slide shows as a kid, it was the only way I would get to see other places!

I'm ok with the social media pictures as as adult, as long as people don't post tons of pics every single day.

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

No one enjoyed this! People mocked the obnoxious couples who subjected people to slideshows of their vacations 40 years ago just as much as they mock the gratuitous social media posters now. You’re right, though, that being breathtakingly self absorbed isn’t unique to the current generation.

[Anonymous]

I only want to see them if they include an incredibly unique experience. Like a locally famous food that can only be obtained at one restaurant on the entire island and reservations need to be made a year in advance... document the crap out of that! Let me know what that orange foam tastes like. But photos of you, hubby, and the kids huddled in a booth at Hard Rock Cafe in Mytrle Beach? I'm good.

Same goes for photos of fireworks on the 4th of July. You should only post those photos if you happened to also capture a UFO flying by at the same time. Otherwise, we've all seen fireworks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually I loved those slide shows as a kid, it was the only way I would get to see other places!

I'm ok with the social media pictures as as adult, as long as people don't post tons of pics every single day.

Did your local library not have a subscription to National Geographic?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love seeing photos from friends. I do post photos on social media.

I have to admit that watching Bling Ring on how people robbed Paris Hilton's house based on social media postings made me feel more tentative about posting photos. But I only post on Facebook.

I know this bothers some and makes them jealous. But they can block me if they don't want to see it.

I love seeing photos from places I'll never make it to. So fun.

Jealous? No. But posting travel photos on social media can make you a mockery.

Wow. You sound mean. I don't mock my friends.

You are receiving yourself. We all do that. But I will plaster on a smile when I see you in the car pool line and chuckle under my breath about your trip to the Amalfi Coast or USVI or wherever. And I’m not alone.

This is really unhinged behavior.

If someone posts a couple stories or photos of a trip, I enjoy seeing their adventures and feel happy for the person. Like a different PP said, it sometimes gives me good ideas for future trips and it's an easy conversation starter the next time you see the person. If they post an album a day, I scroll on by and don't go through it - but I can't imagine laughing at someone for sharing a trip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

Lol, no you wouldn’t have! Are you serious?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, that is horribly gauche and a lot of what’s wrong with the travel world today. Please don’t.

Did you grow up rich? This point of view of not sharing travels with friends and family is foreign to me. So I’m genuinely curious if it’s because you grew up rich and were taught not to brag.

Also curious about if you take photos who traveling at all. Do you ever look at them? Do you make personal print albums for yourself? What if someone asks to see them — do you make an exception?

DP. I didn’t grow up rich and is also think it’s gauche to post travel pics. I love looking back at my own pics. They’re my memories. But I don’t expect anyone else to truly care. It’s sort of like telling people about your dreams. It’s cool that it’s fascinating to you, but trust me, no one else cares to hear about it.

40 years ago you would be invited to sit around someone's living room and watch a slide show on the wall about their exotic travel. And you would have gone and enjoyed it.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

It definitely isn't new, because I'm old enough to remember those slide shows. But people definitely cringed at those, too.

Travel is wonderful, but sharing a handful of trip photos is plenty.

I mean, at least with FB people can look (or not) at their leisure.

I agree that less is more here. I generally post 1-2 pics from each major tourist attraction, unless there's something else special going on - i.e., a mountain range with awesome clouds after a storm.