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0 pointsnewaccount742y ago0 comments

Showing photos and videos to friends and family is a pretty common thing to do?

In the 90ies most people just passed prints around, or if it was pictures of a special occasion people would pass a photo album around. The more elaborate version would be inviting people to look at slides on a projector.

Nowadays most people show photos and videos on their mobile phone, and if you are fancy you put them on a TV with Airplay or Chromecast (or whatever the Android version is called).

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JohnFen2y ago

It appears to me that this is a culturally dependent sort of thing, which is why I said it isn't "universally common" rather than it isn't common.

For instance, I'm a graybeard and in my entire life, I've only seen people do that a couple of times. And even then, the people being shown the media were putting up with it out of politeness. What people in my part of the US tend to do is tell the stories of the trip rather than show pictures. People here usually don't want to see pictures or video, they want to hear the stories.

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JohnFen2y ago

It appears to me that this is a culturally dependent sort of thing, which is why I said it isn't "universally common" rather than it isn't common.

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