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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I mean, most people don't ever look back at the photos they take. Phones have made photos almost valueless.
Yep. An archive of grandma's old phone photos will just be pics of casseroles, receipts, and questionably shaped moles.
I’d fucking love to have that for my grandmother though
Took me a while to realize, that this was not abt dick picks
Yeah all the phone pictures I've got backed up I've hardly every looked up again, I think the fact that film cameras limited the number of pictures you can take and you had to develop them means those picture books automatically became more valuable
My parents were early adopters of digital photos, but also took a bunch on film and have scanned them. We have something around 20,000 photos. My parents display them on a screen in the living room and it's awesome. We're often mesmerized for dozens of minutes just watching and talking about the memories, and it's a great way to connect with my parents now that we're all adults, and really see the work they put in to give us a magical childhood. Before the physical photos were digitized we rarely flipped through the books if it wasn't for a school project or something
Not sure about you but in my house we had a photo wall where the best memories were and the books just held the “other photos” that also told the story. Most of my books from my parents were smaller and less memorable things like parties, fireworks, camping… but the shot of me scoring a goal, my sisters in a pyramid, that year we all dressed as scooby and gang…that was on the wall and now of course, on our digital frames we all own.
I’ll agree the value of a photo goes down when you can take 200 in a minute, but the memories we missed because we had to save the other 20 shots left… didn’t make those memories priceless.
Also people, back that shit up. When my kids turned 18 I shared a drive with them of all their younger years and have a digital executor for when I die who knows where the pics are (and what to delete 😏)
I guess those digital picture frames can be useful if setup correctly, but I'd have to go and filter the actual good photos from my big pile of random pictures
Yes; that’s what happened before digital photos. They were called “photo albums” and you only put the good pictures in them (while arching or throwing out the rest).