My parents have saved tons of boxes of old family photographs growing up. They are fun to look at from time to time, because it used to be a bit harder to create photos. I wonder if the next generation of people will collect moments the same way we used to, seeing how quick and easy things are posted online. I’m sure many of them don’t even have pictures saved locally somewhere and rely on social media and the cloud to store their past.
I feels like people who store their photo on socmed(like insta) do have a habbit of keeping photo, just in different medium, and they believe the company will do a good job of keeping their data, or until the company decided to ban them. They don’t keep physical photo because it’s pretty much a chores to have it print, and sometimes costly too if you want it to be in good quality that normal printer can’t pull off.
They do however keep picture on their phone though, i don’t believe most people just delete the picture locally after they posted it.
I think this is the thing that worries me. I had recently heard of something who lost 20yrs of data from apple for some weird issue.
I also think people treasure images less just because of how much they take today. I don’t think people used to take pictures of their foods at restaurants for example.
Thought so too, we took a tons of photo without giving it a thought, because it cost no money to do so, where in the era of film roll, it cost money for every single click, so we only snap whatever we think we would treasure.
I find it scary how a lot of people don’t have a good permanent storage solution for their photos. If they lose their phone, all photos are gone. Many don’t even know how to transfer files between devices since everything went wireless and that process is not as intuitive anymore.