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I am very tail-end of Gen X, entering my mid-40's, so my early 20's weren't digital. My roommate and I used to go out and take photos of each other trying to be super stars of our own lives. The reality is is if we had had access to smartphones we would have done the same thing as the kids today. I have no doubt.
Yep. I took a LOT of photos of my life growing up. I have thousands and thousands of Kodacolor prints sitting in boxes taking up space. I have dozens of photo albums that I spent hours loading photos into.
Man, if we'd had a simple way to instantaneously take a picture and save it and share it with others, I would have been all over that.
Speaking of smartphones taking over, we went to a new restaurant yesterday. They didn't have paper menus, you had to scan a QR code with your phone. The waitress offered to bring us a tablet, and we said yes to that.
She came back to the patio several minutes later, took the order from the only other people out there, then left. No tablet.
My husband went and found a tablet on the hostess stand, but it didn't work.
I tried to scan the QR code, but the QR app on my phone wants $25/month. No thanks.
Waitress never came back, and we left after maybe 15 minutes with no menu, water, nothing.
I guess we're not hip enough to eat there.
QR codes are the future. QR apps are free. You were getting scammed or you mistook an ad for an app.
Man, if we'd had a simple way to instantaneously take a picture and save it and share it with others, I would have been all over that.
I'm not saying don't take pictures;I'm saying if you already take a million pictures of your family every day (and photoshop them to within an inch of their lives to make them look perfect), what is the point of getting a professional photo shoot for every conceivable occasion? At first I thought it was just D-list celebrities on TV doing this, but now it's people I know personally who, frankly, can't afford it. It seems...self-important.
I have seen ONE photo of my dad as a baby (born 1926) and ONE of my mom, about age 2. When I think of how many photos there are of my grand kids.....
We were somewhere in the middle - my dad liked to take photos, mostly slides. So we were pretty well documented growing up.
But when the selfie craze started, it made me think - 25 years ago, if you met someone, and they pulled out a ton of photos, and started showing them to you - "here's a picture of me, here's another picture of me, here's a picture of me and my friend...." you would have slowly backed away from them. But that's what people do now, for better or worse.
That being said, I love looking at photos in someone's album. On a phone, meh, not so much.
QR codes are the future. QR apps are free. You were getting scammed or you mistook an ad for an app.
They might have an apple iphone.
I've always had an Android, because I hate apple products since way back in computers.
I was working near two department mates discussing their pleasure with their android s.
One said they had to PAY for a lot of the apps on iphone that were FREE on Android.
Both agreed they'd never go back to apple.
That just added another distaste for me of apple products.
And, they may just as well found a pay app.
I had two different QR apps (on an old phone and a this one), both were free.
I gave at least 20 apps on my Android, and I've never paid for one. Maybe more.
Oh, there are pay apps, but they aren't interesting to me when I can find like apps (with ads occasionally) for free.
And even the ones with ads are really no different than have a site pop up on the computer...just because you searched for something.
So, either they had an apple, or happened onto a pay app and have, or rather go further down the list to a free one.
On my Android, when I search for an app, I also get a list of similar apps, and even can read reviews of the listed apps.
I unfollowed the majority of the youngsters from social media once they began posting pictures with the trout pout or kissy face pose. MY GAWD, that annoyed me to no end. I told my nieces "don't ever do that in front of me. I'm going to reach over with my forefinger and thumb and twist that stupid pucker mouth off your face." Of course, one had to be a smart ass and do it, only to find I was serious when my hand shot out and only missed her because she yelped and backed off.
I unfollowed the majority of the youngsters from social media once they began posting pictures with the trout pout or kissy face pose. MY GAWD, that annoyed me to no end. I told my nieces "don't ever do that in front of me. I'm going to reach over with my forefinger and thumb and twist that stupid pucker mouth off your face." Of course, one had to be a smart ass and do it, only to find I was serious when my hand shot out and only missed her because she yelped and backed off.
Talk about a moronic pose.
That doesn't bother me so much.
What DOES get me is when a youngster posts a pic with a cartoon pig snout and pig ears on their face!
Or cats ears and a whiskered nosei find it not funny or cute.
So unoriginal.
Or other such thing.
I even found it on dating sites! That immediately told me "waaaay too young for me"!
I mean you're either posting your face or not, right.
As far as it being generational, I agree with the posted above, that's it actually been that way for many many generations, just formats have changed.
It definitely goes back to late 1800s!
Queen And Prince Albert were definitely "social media-ists"!!
Why? How?
Prince Albert particularly picked on photography as being a medium to use to spread the word about the royal family.
He saw to it that several family portraits were photographed. They could be reprinted and posted in news papers.
They could be sold at fair's or gatherings.
They could pass them out.
The king or queen of the past...well most of the commoners.. unless they got a glimpse as a carriage went by, never actually knew what the monarch actually looked like.
Prince Albert and Victoria wanted the people she ruled to actually know what the royal family looked like.
Voila! The first "social media" people...all the way back to the late 1800s!
Now, if you've seen the photos of the royal family, they aren't smiling and are often seated. That's because it took 3 minutes or so for an exposure, and you can imagine trying to hold a smile for that long!
And, I, as a boomer, bought extra class pictures, didn't you?
And why?
Well to exchange with our friends, of course!
That was "social sharing" of the day!
Now it's Snapchat.
So, many many generations have used the technology of the day... whatever or however we had to do it, just as youngsters of today use current digital options!
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