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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might enjoy your trip more if you aren’t always scanning for that Instagram-worthy shot. You may notice things you might have otherwise missed. You might realize you’re really having fun with your family doing xyz right now. You might interact more with your family or the locals. 
Travels are about getting away. This is harder to do if you’re always thinking how amazing this shot will look on my FB page to my followers.
That’s all some of us are saying. [/quote]

It’s just weird how some of you think you absolutely cannot  in any way enjoy your trip or being with your family if you post a picture to Instagram too. Like that’s actually ludicrous. [/quote]

DP. For me, it’s a matter of mindset. If I knew there was a chance I might post something to social media, my photos occupied my mind in a way that made me feel kind of ick. It became a weird compulsion to think “I wonder how this one will go over.” Or, “yikes, we look weird in that one, let’s take it again… ok, just one more…” When I removed the possibility, it opened up a lot of space in my head to just enjoy the place, the moment, the people. [/quote]

Well that’s you. It hasn’t occurred to you some people just use photos as [b]documentation, journaling, personal record, artistic expression[/b]? Or that they can post a photo or two AND not be consumed with the image and projection of it? [/quote]

If you say so. And the bolded is all old as time, but the whole point of social media is to elicit a reaction from other people. It designed to give you a little brain boost when people like what you post, so it’s completely normal for people to look for more of that feeling, whether consciously or not. If you’ve figured out the trick to participate without thinking about what other people think, that’s great. Many people haven’t.[/quote]

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