I hate selfies, so whenever I’m on vacation I just take pictures of my surroundings but never with me in it. Once, my cousin wanted to see my vacation pics, so I showed them to him. He then asked why I’m not in any of them. When I said I didn’t think it was necessary, his genuine confused reply was, “But how do people know you were really there, then?”
It’s really insane out there.
This is how I take pictures, I take pictures of the things I am seeing so I can look back at those moments later. I don’t experience life in third person, observing myself from overhead like a video game, so why would I want myself in the pictures?
the neat part is they don’t. unless you tell them about the trip. I too only take pictures of my surroundings, with my camera app, for myself, without the intend of sharing more than maybe one of them. unless I happend to put something on a family group chat or something
I have a counterpoint. I used to be the same way but then I realized I just had a bunch of amateur photos of places where professional photos were readily available, basically wasted effort. So now I try to capture the people I’m with in the photos as a way to remember our trip together. This is also great fodder to make photo books for the grandmas.
Same for me. I took multiple trips as a young adult where I just took scenery photos. Twenty years later I really regretted not including myself and family in those photos. Think of yourself in the future and skip sharing them online.
I’m the same when I’m going on a vacation with my parents! I want to have as much memories captured with them as possible… But it’s only when I’m with them lol. I usually go to vacations solo, and the pictures without me is still memories to me–even if it’s a bad picture and not professional quality, it’s still something I saw and experienced myself. Like maybe my sunset picture I took is crooked or too dark etc, but when I see it I remember the moment I was there; it captured exact hue of the sky that I saw, the birds that I was watching earlier, the clouds that I thought looked like a Pokemon and made me smile. The better pictures that other people took do not have that, so for me personally, it’s not a wasted effort.
The other day I was looking at my solo vacation pictures from 10, 15 years ago without me in them, and the memories are still with me.
Anyway, I think that although we take them differently, we both agree that vacation pictures should be for our memories, and not for “showing other people that we were REALLY there” (as my cousin said, haha…)
One time I found this old home movie my grandma made of their visit to the Grand Canyon back in the 50s. She’s filming the scenery and a couple times you can barely see my dad and uncles run by. We’re watching this in the mid ’00s – 50 years later, near the end of her life. She goes “Why didn’t I point the camera at them? I don’t care about the Grand Canyon."
That’s when I quit taking pictures without people in them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1hpb5j/comment/cawuf50/
Making posts about how you’re not home is bad OpSec.
Hey everyone! Come fuck my shit up while I’m away! K thanx.
Look at my post history, take your pick of all my shiny things, with pictures of their condition you can scrape to sell them on ebay!
Some with actual casual valuations lol
No kidding! Glad someone gets it. A couple I know who Instagrammed their entire cross-Europe vacation last year couldn’t understand why I don’t want to travel at the same time as them this year even though we’re going some of the same places 🤦♂️
Well don’t leave us hanging! Does their house get robbed every time they’re away on vacation and posting about it on social media?
Not yet, but it’s not a chance I’d be willing to take. They have at least one neighbor who’s supposedly been arrested for theft. He used to watch their dogs for them but when they found out they stopped talking to him and changed the locks.
are you going to rob them while they’re away?
Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world and I’ll burn my phone and go no contact with anyone I know ever again
Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world
https://foreignlegion.info/joining/ bon voyage & bonne chance!
First, What’s a vacation?
Second, I don’t post anything on line now as it is.
Well this is awkward…
I would certainly hope so…
Technically, you just posted a comment.
I understand wanting to share pictures of your trip and stuff, but if it’s such a compulsive need you wouldn’t be able to not do it, you’ve got issues.
Yeah, plus it’s not like you couldn’t just share stuff when you get home.
This is the only way I ever publicly share any information about my travels. Don’t want to advertise that there’s nobody home.
This is the way
Hmmm
If you could shitpost on Lemmy but no one was around to upvote it, would you still do it?
You bet I would
Shitposting on Lemmy would still be a post and prohibited though
Personally. I don’t consider it a vacation until I’m cut off from everyone and everything. Let me relax in peace for a while, without distractions.
For real. This is the primary feature of vacation.
I went on a 2 week holiday earlier this year and I barely took a single picture lol
Spitting facts right there
Hell my favorite places to go hiking don’t even have cell service
But ehat if you think of a good hashtag while you’re hiking
I love taking a motorcycle up to the Radio Quiet Zone in VA and WV. There ain’t shit up there and no one can get in touch with me for days.
Just slowly cruising through the mountains and disconnected in a way that I haven’t been since before my first work cell phone.
It truly is bliss being disconnected from everything every now and then
No Internet, no phone calls, no texts, nothing.
Being truly disconnected from the world at large.
If people need me, they can wait until I get back from my hike or my vacation as I’m truly unreachable unless someone hikes out there too.
Allrighty, I’ll use other request types, like PUT, or just base64 encode and GET it :D
crickets
You’re grounded. Go curl in a tarball in the corner >:(
It’s up to the services you use to decide what requests are required.
Or you will have to build a weird and otherwise pretty useless proxy
I’ll host my own service, with blackjack and virtual hookers
woosh
I gave up posting on insta and facebook a couple years ago.
It’s been great. I share links to my holiday pics with close family that takes them directly to my chosen FTP site and that works fine
I just use email. The boomers were right all along.
I don’t even take pictures
I take plenty. It’s nice to reminiscent and often family and friends ask to see something. I don’t post them anywhere though.
Right? I only ever use pics to refer back to certain incidents “like see, on the 8th of December this what happened that day Cindy you fucking liar” and so on
Yeah my family loves taking pictures. I just try to take pictures of nice scenes and stuff.
I take lots of pictures, I just don’t post them anywhere
Take the pictures, post them later
Eew. That part of the internet is leaking in again.
are you really vacationing if there is no one to witness it
I volunteer to witness vacations if anyone needs help.
Only if you’re doing it right. Witnesses are a problem.
Wait, did you say vacation?
you are both vacationing and not vacationing until is observed
