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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone - no one is saying don't take pictures to capture the memories for yourself and your family or friends who were on vacation with you. But there is a subset of people who take pictures in addition or mostly, for an outside audience, for people who were not on vacation with you. The latter is what some of us are challenging. The title of the post is travel on social media. Not photography on travels.[/quote]

But some people are acting like if you ever post a single photo of a vacation to social media, you are destroying your travel by "focusing" on how it looks on social media. And we are saying that we don't take these pictures FOR social media, we take the pictures for ourselves and then occasionally decide to share one or two on social media.

I do know what you are talking about, with the people who document each of their trips on Facebook or Instagram, and who are clearly taking photos for the express purpose of showing people on social media aspects of their trip. I have my pet peeves around this too. I dislike when people post airplane photos because (1) it's inherently uninteresting unless this is literally their first time on an airplane and usually it's not, and (2) nine times out of ten, people do this so you can see that they are sitting in business class or first class, which is absolutely shameless bragging.  I also find it boring when people post very generic family photos that I've seen a million other families also post, like the family in mouse ears in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disney, or the Eiffel Tower photo. In the last 5-6 years I've seen a lot of people posting photos of their families all in lederhosen at Oktoberfest also, to the point where it feels generic. I don't know why those annoy me but they do. I have done most of those things but would never post that specific photo because it really does feel generic to me. [/quote]

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