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Photo-overload: Everyone’s taking pics, but is anyone really looking? (theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by uladzislau on June 26, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Is anyone looking? Hell, the people that take them don't even look at them. My wife and I spent a year travelling in Asia, and took a billion pictures (10K?). I'm sure 8500 haven't been viewed except in a page of thumbnails, and of the 1500 that have been viewed, there's probably 50 that have been viewed more than once or twice.

Perhaps its a technology question: maybe there isn't a suitably engaging discovery tool on my desktop to get me into my own library. Or perhaps the human capacity to enjoy our photographic progeny is just exceeded by our capacity to produce.




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