Cameras have ruined Christmas

holystungun9 · 26-12-2018 12:27PM

Damn, it's tragic/hilarious that people always blurt out "cameras/Facebook" and fail to notice it's a person's actions. I'm pretty sure someone can both own a camera and have Facebook and not act like a tw@t. I hope we are not at a stage where people feel the need to sue Camera companies and Facebook because they have to blame something else and claim they can't control themselves and tech made them do it.

Poor_old_gill · 26-12-2018 01:28PM

holystungun9 wrote: »

Damn, it's tragic/hilarious that people always blurt out "cameras/Facebook" and fail to notice it's a person's actions. I'm pretty sure someone can both own a camera and have Facebook and not act like a tw@t. I hope we are not at a stage where people feel the need to sue Camera companies and Facebook because they have to blame something else and claim they can't control themselves and tech made them do it.

Have to agree with this- its more the people than anything else!
About 12 in our house over the course of yesterday and maybe 2 photos were taken

vkus6mt3y8zg2q · 26-12-2018 01:32PM

It's not just Xmas it's everything now. Same people at concerts etc with their phones (or worse still ipads) out recording videos and watching through the screen rather than just enjoying the experience.

jimbobaloobob · 26-12-2018 01:33PM

Don't think cameras or Facebook or any other social media is the problem. I think it's more related to the parents ego and wish to 'check in' so that others can see what they are at for Christmas or any other day of the year. All about telling the 'social story'. There's a cultural problem with technology that we must use them for stuff like this mad as it is.

On the other side it only takes people who think it's mad to stop doing it to begin a change in thought for those around them. Some will pick up on this and do likewise.

I don't use any social media platforms and nobody expects me to update them with my life which suits me and suits more than would say it if I were doing it.

OldMrBrennan83 · 26-12-2018 01:34PM

I'm happy for people to video stuff or not video stuff if they so choose. Nobody is forcing me to do either.

vkus6mt3y8zg2q · 26-12-2018 01:35PM

Patww79 wrote: »

I'm happy for people to video stuff or not video stuff if they so choose. Nobody is forcing me to do either.

Thanks for stating the obvious that no one is forcing you not to do one of two options

OldMrBrennan83 · 26-12-2018 01:37PM

Rowan Tall Cheesecloth wrote: »

Thanks for stating the obvious that no one is forcing you not to do one of two options

You're welcome. No problem at all, happy to.

Why get annoyed about other people looking at a concert through their phones of they're not putting you in a head lock and making you do it too? Just do what you want and let them do likewise.

Yakult · 26-12-2018 01:43PM

People are desperate to seek validation, often from complete strangers, that they are living this "perfect" life that you should be jealous of.

road_high · 26-12-2018 09:30PM

Yakult wrote: »

People are desperate to seek validation, often from complete strangers, that they are living this "perfect" life that you should be jealous of.

On Facebook big time... the perfect family, house and appearances. We all know the reality is rarely the case but how and ever!

richiepurgas · 26-12-2018 09:33PM

Drives me mad at a concert and when people put up a picture of a meal they're having. What point are they actually trying to make ? For the last three days have been socialising day and night with extended family. Don't remember even one photo being taken.

Ipso · 26-12-2018 09:58PM

nthclare wrote: »

There's a lot of men choosing imasculation These day's.
In some cases I wouldn't blame them, it's either loose everything if you don't let yourself be imasculated, or just give in.

All jokes aside years ago, there would be maybe 4 photos taken during the day itself, now that amount is way more...

Even the tookey gets in on it....

Instagram feed s with glasses of prescecco at 9:30 in the morning like wtf.....

Its the imasculate conception.

BilboBagOfCans · 26-12-2018 10:26PM

Patww79 wrote: »

You're welcome. No problem at all, happy to.

Why get annoyed about other people looking at a concert through their phones of they're not putting you in a head lock and making you do it too? Just do what you want and let them do likewise.

To be fair I've found recently that it can be very hard to see at concerts due to everyone having their phones (or worse, tablets) up to video the whole thing.

I do think photos and videos are great to have, especially when they are all you have left of a loved one, but I think the quantity at which they are taken is probably a bit much in some cases

_Brian · 26-12-2018 10:40PM

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Christmas eve an all the pics of what Santa has left. Hard on parents who can't afford or don't want to spend thousands on Santa.

Then the kid wakes up Christmas morning with a camera shoved in their face as they get out of bed. Horrible . thank goodness I'm a generation ahead of this.

Are people really spending thousands on Santa ?
Maybe €400 between two kids here, another maybe €75 as gifts from ourselves. Stuff was perchased over maybe 4 months.

Surely people are just saying thousands for shock value rather than it being a thing.

enda1 · 27-12-2018 12:19AM

_Brian wrote: »

Are people really spending thousands on Santa ?
Maybe €400 between two kids here, another maybe €75 as gifts from ourselves. Stuff was perchased over maybe 4 months.

Surely people are just saying thousands for shock value rather than it being a thing.

Some people have money.

Not everyone here needs to save for occasional expenses. This comment isn’t meant as a gloat - it certainly doesn’t refer to my situation, but it is what it is.

NIMAN · 27-12-2018 12:37AM

They have certainly killed the works Xmas night out

Everyone used to be great craic. Make a balls of themselves, or at least not be afraid to.

Now everyone is so well behaved, as everytime you look some fecker is pointing a phone in your direction.

Last thing you want is your embarrassing dancing or messing finding itself online.

khaldrogo · 27-12-2018 12:41AM

Ultimate Seduction wrote:

Christmas eve an all the pics of what Santa has left. Hard on parents who can't afford or don't want to spend thousands on Santa. Then the kid wakes up Christmas morning with a camera shoved in their face as they get out of bed. Horrible . thank goodness I'm a generation ahead of this.

My kids got maybe 120e spent on them each( 1 big pressie and a few small ones)
I recorded their reactions for the family and that was it.

Cameras were around 30/40 yrs ago too.........plenty more pics of me floating about at that age than my kids.

27-12-2018 09:55AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

I’m slightly active on Facebook, yet our son is 4 and neither my partner or me have ever posted a photo of him on Facebook or even referenced his existence for that matter.. Have we taken pictures of him, yes, probably thousands of photos, but they are for us, and only shared with close family or froends via iMessage or WhatsApp.

My own take on it is we don’t know where Facebook is going, but it’s certainly not the nice cool interesting place it was 10 years or so ago. I don’t want my son in 10-15 years asking me why there are hundreds/thousands of pictures of him on Facebook, his entire upbringing stored in a virtual format (whether he likes it or not).

You know that WhatsApp IS Facebook, right?

AndyBoBandy · 27-12-2018 10:27AM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

You know that WhatsApp IS Facebook, right?

Yes but when I send someone a photo on WhatsApp, I’m sending someone a photo, not sharing it with the 90 or so Facebook friends I have.

I’ve also used Facebook messenger to send personal photos.

The difference is Messenger/iMessage/WhatsApp is a private conversation, not a public forum.

27-12-2018 01:06PM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

You know that WhatsApp IS Facebook, right?

Yes but when I send someone a photo on WhatsApp, I’m sending someone a photo, not sharing it with the 90 or so Facebook friends I have.

I’ve also used Facebook messenger to send personal photos.

The difference is Messenger/iMessage/WhatsApp is a private conversation, not a public forum.

It's easy enough to set up a private family group on Facebook so you can share stuff with a restricted group.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 28-12-2018 10:15PM

richiepurgas wrote: »

Drives me mad at a concert and when people put up a picture of a meal they're having. What point are they actually trying to make ? For the last three days have been socialising day and night with extended family. Don't remember even one photo being taken.

I post pics of food sometimes. I post them for my friends who are interested in food and cooking to see. I’m not trying to get likes from my whole friend list or expecting everyone to be interested. I’m just sharing the photo for people on my friend list that I know are interested.

Patww79 wrote: »

Why get annoyed about other people looking at a concert through their phones of they're not putting you in a head lock and making you do it too? Just do what you want and let them do likewise.

As a shortie, I don’t mind tall people blocking my view at concerts - they can’t help being tall. But I do hate my view being blocked by an inanimate object being held aloft.

Cameras have ruined Christmas

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