Cameras on nights out
pjfan31
Posts: 7,331
I just wish I could go out and enjoy myself without having to worry about my life being published over various social networks. My mate's girlfriend is addicted to taking a camera out and snaps photos left right and centre at inappropriate times too. Then it gets uploaded. I had words with her last night because it is something she constantly does. It is seriously like being a celebrity and she is the paparazzi snapping photos. I have been close to being the 'celebrity' that throws the camera on the ground and stops on it
And yes I know you can untag photos etc, but it's not the point if the image is still floating around.
So do you hang around people who take photos of everything? or are you the person taking the photos?
And yes I know you can untag photos etc, but it's not the point if the image is still floating around.
So do you hang around people who take photos of everything? or are you the person taking the photos?
Sydney 11/02/2003
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
I am sorry for you.. I am sorry for the many who go out on a night only to stare at their smartphones like zombies.. it seems these days people want to upload themselves to the internet.. perminantly.
What ever happened to living the moment? Why are people always trying to capture it instead?
She had just snapped a photo of me without me realising, I saw the flash and I said
'For fucks sake, can you put the camera away before I break it? I just want to enjoy myself'
The photos that has appeared of me over the years just annoy me, like
-throwing up in my mate's garden (my drink was actually spiked and I got messy really quick and it was my first public vomit at age 23)
- Me chatting up girls (a few of these ones, surprisingly she has never captured a slap in the face)
- Me hooking up with girls
Just annoys the fuck out of me and I let her know about it last night.
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
Stupid
Lame
Ratarded
No one gives a shit that you went out with your "girls", got drunk and slept with some random dude
http://boe.jeff.k12.wv.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=948&
Most recently my high school BF(not quite)F rolled through our hometown for the first time in over a decade. Decided to meet up at the local casino - FML - and between her and the other HS friend that met us there we were posing for pics every 30 seconds.
I just kept thinking, "We are in our mid-thirties and the best we can manage for a "night on the town" is within two miles of where we each grew up AND went to high school. Let's not fucking document it."
Besides the pressure of feeling like needing to put your best face forward every second that you're out in public with any friend with a phone, it does interupt any enjoying of the moment. If I'm out to listen some live music, I just want to rock the fuck out. Put your phones down, face the stage, feel the music.
Makes me miss the days when people wouldn't want to waste film with too many pictures of the same thing.
Great point. Fuckin digital age....
Another instance was we were at new years eve bbq. And there was some music playing (just classic hits) and there was about 5 of us on a make shift dance floor acting like total idiots singing out loud, dancing like idiots without a care in the world. To show how idiotic we were dancing we were trying to dance like Peter Garrett from midnight oil. We just didn't care because we were enjoying the moment. And we were pretty drunk.
Then I look over and see her filming it... I thought do I want old family friends, colleagues and family looking at me on facebook or what ever the fuck she was going to do with it. No. So I deleted it on the sly.
I'm not totally against pictures, but not every time I want to enjoy a beer or 14.
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014
One of my close friends is obsessed with documenting everything. I asked her many times to not take pictures of me but she just waits as I turn around and does it anyway. Usually I get mad and it's another reason for her to take a picture.
My friends think days ahead what they're gonna wear to a party, what looks good in a photo etc. Sometimes I think they go out only to get some new pics for facebook. I'm fed up with being asked if the photo is cool or she looks fat in it.
The worst thing is that recently she organized a party at her house to watch photos from the previous party! :?
There were few decent shots of us having fun and most of the photos had like half of sb's head, people drinking or puting food in the mouth. I wished I'd been drunk before we started the slide show.
A couple of high school friends have put some pics on facebook of high school parties (almost 20 years ago), and they are fun to look at, but I wouldn't want dozens of pics of every night out floating around.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
who love to have their picture taken.
The pretty people. The perfect people. The photogenic people.
It can be disquieting to say the least to have the camera flashing excessively
and them admiring themselves in the pictures along side the people who cringe
at the site of a camera.
I won't say self centered because thats not it but often I don't think they realize
how uncomfortable picture taking can make others. If they could feel how another person feels,
they would realize it might put that person on the spot,
that the camera can make a person feel self conscious and totally inhibits personal interaction.
Put the cameras away and work on making true friendships and real memories
and see the beauty within that the camera doesn't.
I get the impression she doesn't put much thought behind the photo she is taking. For me, the photo has to have some artistic expression involved. You know, some worth to the photo. Give it an actual purpose.
P.S. Let her read this thread.
1998: Barrie
2000: Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills
2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal
2004: Boston X2, Grand Rapids
2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2006: Toronto X2
2009: Toronto
2011: PJ20, Montreal, Toronto X2, Hamilton
2012: Manchester X2, Amsterdam X2, Prague, Berlin X2, Philadelphia, Missoula
2013: Pittsburg, Buffalo
2014: Milan, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Detroit
2016: Ottawa, Toronto X2
2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona
2023: Chicago X2
2024: New York X2
I know a guy from high school who I am friends with on facebook... he has hundreds and hundreds of pics (probably thousands) on fb of himself with celebrities, at big events, or with just random other friends... hundreds of them... he probably has more pictures of himself on facebook than have ever been take of me in my entire lifetime.
I don't get it... he has to be the most annoying guy to go out with because he's gotta handing his camera to people all of the time and asking them to take his picture with someone. It's bizarre...
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Our conversations usually one sided and the times spent unmemorable for me but they have tons of pictures to remember themselves
Some people are camera shy...
My daughter said last night about my Eddie magnets on the frig...
'Mom you have more Eddie pictures then of your own kids!'
I said 'I can't get a picture of my kids.'
We are all camera shy in this family. And in my family as a child too.
I guess its a personality trait and a learned behavior to some degree.
There is that belief that with each picture taken a bit of your soul is taken away with it.
I don't know about that but I do think being vane does not make for soul growing.
Vanity in excess can lead to being shallow and self absorbed, or perhaps vice versa.
The most beautiful people are those that really see other people, by listening,
by caring and sharing.
The best picture of someone is taken with the heart and that is forever to keep.
Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
she's maybe enjoying her personal stash of pics of you.
this thread is useless w/o pics.
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
i've been meaning to say something to my "mate's" wife about this for some time. it's extremely annoying.
Doubt it...
I think she wants to just catch photos in the moment. I can't really recall posing for a photo.
Sydney 14/02/2003
Sydney 07/11/2006
Sydney 18/11/2006
Sydney 22/11/2009
EV Sydney 18/03/2011
EV Sydney 19/03/2011
EV Sydney 20/03/2011
Melbourne 24/01/2014
Sydney 26/01/2014
EV Sydney 13/02/2014