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.
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
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?
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.
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Eew. That part of the internet is leaking in again.
Why would I post anything about it? It’s my vacation and I would be drinking too much to even bother posting about it.
I might even catch up on my planning and research (as a teacher it’s a treat to actually develop as a teacher when there’s time).
Just take some occasional pics with family and surroundings and enjoy the vacation.
Make it a memory not a post that needs to be liked by “followers”.
I’m going to probably be going on a healthcare “vacation” next month where that’s a likely scenario, so I’ll let you all know how it goes.
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
Am I the only one who doesn’t want to go on vacation? I’ll take the time off work, but I’d rather potter around my place, maybe go for some nice walks
Nah. One of my coworkers stays home for every vacation and reads. We try to guess how many books she’ll read during her week off each time. Closest guess, without going over, wins. She loves it and crowns a winner each time she returns, but the winner only gets bragging rights until her next vacation.
A few years ago I was at a gas station pumping fuel on a trip, while prices were extremely high, and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive.
That’s me! But I’m a really slow reader, and have many other interests, so that number would be between 0-1 every time lol.
[•••] and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive
Maybe so, but if you like going elsewhere then maybe it’s worth it for you. The main reason I don’t travel is because it sounds like the opposite of fun to me, personally.
But I spend plenty on my introvert shit. Like just recently spent almost 100 EUR on these fancy recycled notebooks for my partner and I, because I spend so much of my time writing workbooks, navel gazing diary entries, filling out bespoke agendas rofl; all that stuff.
But that’s me and my happy place.
Oh, yeah, I enjoy the traveling. My thought was just that as I was watching the pump total price go higher and higher. But I still travel for vacations. :)
I like vacations where I just go exist somewhere else. Plan a few outings, sure, go to some nice restaurants, but otherwise I just want to relax with no itinerary. The best vacations are ones where I don’t have to look at the clock.
Yeah the itinerary thing sounds so awful, especially if it involves traveling from place to place to place. But I guess some people really like it that way…
I like to exist in place for my vacations, but my partner is one of those who need to go elsewhere every now and then. I look forward to her stories, but am thankful I don’t have to share in them haha
Yeah I am the no plan kind of traveler. My wife is the general plan type and even we clash sometimes. I can’t handle the itinerary people. I’ve gone on trips with them but I won’t participate in their scheduled activities. For that reason cruises seem like the lamest way to waste money on travel to me.
You don’t have to go far to have a nice trip somewhere. You could literally go on foot. Yeah some people do it just for the 'gram, but actually, meeting new different cultures always is a very enriching experience. Putting yourself into unusual situations is a very enriching experience. Don’t miss out on this pleasure in life.
I love near a metropolitan city, so I feel like the world kind of comes to me. And each passing year my small town becomes more and more diverse, along with my work and friend groups.
Obviously not the same as going somewhere with different history and culture, but I feel like my cup is full. Like, I’m good for pleasures. 👍🏻
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I understand that, but it can’t actually be literally true. Wherever you live, even if it’s the literal belly button of the world, you won’t notice what all people that pass through your town or live in your town have in common until you go outside and see what living without that thing you have in common is like. And thanks to that, you’ll get a deeper appreciation of what makes your town your home.
It’s not like tech: once you see a new technology at the store you won’t want to go back to your own crappy technology at home. It’s more like reading a book in the same genre, it will only make you appreciate what you love about your favourite more.
What can’t be true?
I do realise there are experiences I’m missing out on. I miss out on plenty of experiences other than traveling, though.
It would be neat to go somewhere I’m a visible minority, though. I don’t get a lot of that life, except maybe at weddings, big cultural events, etc.
Anyway my wife is a traveller. She gets that wanderlust from time to time, so it’s only inevitable that she take me on one her trips one of these days.
The airport sounds like the worst part tbh so much indignity
Pedantry: it putter not potter.
Completely agree. I think it’s a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We’re way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.
Pedantry: it putter not potter.
Wuuuuuuuut! That’s crazy. I’ve been using it wrong my whole life.
Everything is a lie!
Pedantry: it putter not potter.
I thought the same, but they’re actually interchangeable depending on where you are, so I interchange them for fun.
I think it’s a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We’re way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.
Perhaps at the level of statistics, but I have the opportunity to travel (now, for the first time in my life), but no desire. There’s just so much to do locally, you know?
Thanks for your informative and less snarky answer. I learned something new today!
Am I the only one who doesn’t think vacation equals travel? It just means you don’t have to go to work.
That’s what I always thought. Or thought it was just what we called stat days since I never got vacation until I got into software. Now that I’m around people in a higher income bracket I discovered we get more than 2 or 3 days off?? And folks are going places like far away, for long periods of time.
I still have not adjusted from this middle class culture shock
25 days off per year is minimum by law in my country. I have 36. Would never be able to afford traveling for 36 days (plus weekends) every year though.
People who don’t turn off notifications on their phones be like
Best thing I ever did, notifications go bye bye with every new phone
Take the pictures, post them later
I do this all the time with camping trips. Way to far away from cell towers and radio signals to post anything.
Uh gee, for starters don’t go around broadcasting that you’re not home. Watching your stuff. Do you want property theft? Because that’s how you get property theft! You can brag and selectively post all the highlights and none of the lowlights when you’re back if you think that you need that to feel better about yourself.
Consider the asker. Y’all have fun with your selfies, I’m going on vacation.
By statistics alone, we know that if not her then at least many other people think this way these days.
Normal conversation between two humans holding a small black rectangle in front of their faces.
I’d rather work than to be forced to post something on vacation.
