Speak for yourself, millennial. Gen X knew better than to make evidence.
I’m millennial and no one would’ve ever dared even taking photos during our night outs (granted, I was in the dark underground parts, maybe the ones at the top 40 clubs did that?).
For some reason this post loaded a completely different image for me before I opened the comments.
It made your comment confusing.
The only time I’ve ever uploaded 90 photos anywhere after a night out was when I subcontracted for a PI.
PI
Penis Inspector? Potato Imitatior? Pants Immolaton? Piss Inquisition? Pork I give up
Prison Injector. Silicon valley startup back in the day was paid about 2b to experiment with gig economy based microincarceration-as-a-service, using the cells a person naturally produces.
Of course an ngmi like me got paid 30/hr, so I could almost afford a pup tent and shitting indoors twice a week.
Private investigator
Personal injector, practically insignificant, pussy ignitor, private insurer, pastry insulator
i too used to regularly upload several hundred photos at a time for my PI (principal investigator. they were microscope photos)
I’ve never dragged my BX53 out on the town. Maybe it would be a hit.
if you can be arsed to lug that thing to a library or bar or something with a box of slides, maybe some pond water, you’ll probably have a pretty fun time showing it off lol
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t legal, but I was bored and poor.
not often one gets money and some entertainment at the same time!
So far out of the loop I didn’t know this was a thing people did or why it would be unusual for young people to do today
it’s unusual because now they upload it to instagram… also owned by facebook
That’s because this is stupid. The same category of person who used to do that still does. The majority of people did not and that same majority still does not.
What were those days like for people that got invited to nights out?
Fun.
We had fun?
I wouldn’t bet on my photo having been taken 90+ times in my life, but then I’ve never been the “go out at night” type
I wouldn’t bet on my photo having been taken 90+ times in my life
Do you avoid being in photos?
Yes, but it’s also not a situation that comes up often
From my perspective that’s really sad. My wife avoided being in photos as a teenager and as a result there’s basically nothing to look back on from that time. By comparison I bought my first digicam at 14 and carried it everywhere. There’s loads of photos of what I got up to. These days there’s photos of me with my daughter, with my friends, etc… The notion of avoiding that kind of thing seems so strange to me.
I avoid them because I don’t like posting pics to the internet and nobody is able to respect that wish because nobody but me cares about privacy, it usually gets uploaded to the internet since they know I don’t have a facebook and I will likely never catch them except the few times they’ve slipped up and showed me themselves.
Meanwhile I upload very few photos of people to the internet but take lots of them to remember the happy times we’ve had together.
Wish I could trust that, but experience has shown I cannot. If someone also didn’t have a facebook (or anything except maybe Mastodon and Lemmy), maybe then I could, but I’m the only weirdo I know irl, so.
I have thought about getting a camera and becoming the photographer myself, and then I can control what gets uploaded by virtue of controlling what pics they receive to begin with, but I have absolutely no idea where to start with that lol. It’d have to be a camera better than a phone camera or people would just use that, but not too bulky as to facilitate carry, and something that’d be good for nature since that’s the only thing I enjoy photographing and so why not actually get some enjoyment too, get me out of the house more often too. Also it would have to be not a million dollars, it doesn’t need to be the best, just good enough.
I guess… if anyone has any camera recs let me know.
When I switched to digital photography, someone recommended I start with the canon rebel, and I’m still using that same camera 12 years later. Honestly it’s a good camera that’s not too expensive and light weight, and there’s probably lots of refurbished ones for super cheap online. I can’t speak as much to Nikon since I stuck with canon, but really any basic dslr from either of those companies would be good, just avoid full frame sensors if you want it to be light weight and reasonably priced lol. If anything, invest more in getting decent lenses – just ensure the lens is compatible with the camera you choose. For nature photography, a good telephoto lens for anything far away and a macro lens for small close ups, and the standard zoom lens that comes with just about every dslr kit to get everything in between.
Someone else may have better recommendations because I haven’t kept up with all the new fancy features that have come out since, but imo the ability to use a variety of lenses for different purposes is what sets a dslr camera apart from what phone cameras are capable of doing these days.
Nowadays I see my friends whittle down 90 photos into 5 for a Instagram post and ask if they’re doing too much
