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[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]

I get this. I think I used to be more obsessive about social media and I remember sometimes feeling this way. I quit Facebook a while back and found that was a major culprit. There is something about how people post and interact on Facebook that I think encourages this mindset.

But I still have Instagram and Twitter and while I don't post very often, I do occasionally post travel photos. But I'm not thinking about social media at all when I take the photos. I just go on vacation and take photos as I see fit, for our own memories. And occasionally I take a photo and I or my DH or my kid will say "oh wow, that would be a fun photo to share." Sometimes it's just a pretty photo of a place we're visiting where the light is nice or something, and other times it's a picture of us that it just feels like people will be interested in. So I'll post it. But we take many vacations where nothing gets posted and we don't think about it.

It's similar with my kid. I do not document her life on social media (no compulsory 1st day of school photos, I don't automatically do photos on her birthday or whatever). But occasionally I take a photo of her and think "oh, it would be fun to share this with the family and friends on Instagram." My IG account is private and I always ask her before sharing (and she has said no to some things and I abide by her decision). Like the last thing of her I shared was a short video from a dance recital she was in where she had a little solo and it was just so cute and good and I knew people would enjoy seeing it because they know she dances but never get to see it. But that was months ago and I haven't felt compelled to share since.

I think when your default is "private", it's possible to just share things occasionally to social media without it becoming the reason you take photos or influencing what you photograph or even what you do. But I get what you mean about how it can swing too far in the wrong direction because I think I was kind of like that when I was still on Facebook, where I was connected to way more people and it seemed like there was more pressure to post things and to post things people would like.[/quote]

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