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Smartphones.
I hate going to events and seeing everyone with their phones out and they're recording everything. Nobody knows how to just relax and enjoy something. They think having it captured on their phones make it a memory, it doesn't.
You remember the video you recorded, not the actual event.
I was able to watch the Celtics win game 7 of the championship at the Garden. It was 2008, so early smartphones, but I don't even have a single photo or video from the game. But I have the memory of the smells and just about every moment of the game. Including random people who I slapped 5s with throughout the game and people who I hugged.
I know for a fact that if I was one of those people who can't put down their phone I would have recorded everything and forgotten the actual ambience of being there.
Why record when you know the event is being recorded by cameras much better than yours from dozens of angles and will be digitally archived forever.
I hate going to events and seeing everyone with their phones out and they're recording everything. Nobody knows how to just relax and enjoy something. They think having it captured on their phones make it a memory, it doesn't.
You remember the video you recorded, not the actual event.
I was able to watch the Celtics win game 7 of the championship at the Garden. It was 2008, so early smartphones, but I don't even have a single photo or video from the game. But I have the memory of the smells and just about every moment of the game. Including random people who I slapped 5s with throughout the game and people who I hugged.
I know for a fact that if I was one of those people who can't put down their phone I would have recorded everything and forgotten the actual ambience of being there.
Why record when you know the event is being recorded by cameras much better than yours from dozens of angles and will be digitally archived forever.