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I wonder how many pictures will be lost to time from parents who don't back up or share the photos on their phone? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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It used to be you could find a box of photos or keepsakes that you inherited to look back on how things were or when you were a kid. Now, most of that is stored on phones, and most parents probably don’t think to share or save them in a way to be passed down in the future.

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My parents were early adopters of digital photos, but also took a bunch on film and have scanned them. We have something around 20,000 photos. My parents display them on a screen in the living room and it's awesome. We're often mesmerized for dozens of minutes just watching and talking about the memories, and it's a great way to connect with my parents now that we're all adults, and really see the work they put in to give us a magical childhood. Before the physical photos were digitized we rarely flipped through the books if it wasn't for a school project or something

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Before the physical photos were digitized…

    Not sure about you but in my house we had a photo wall where the best memories were and the books just held the “other photos” that also told the story. Most of my books from my parents were smaller and less memorable things like parties, fireworks, camping… but the shot of me scoring a goal, my sisters in a pyramid, that year we all dressed as scooby and gang…that was on the wall and now of course, on our digital frames we all own.

    I’ll agree the value of a photo goes down when you can take 200 in a minute, but the memories we missed because we had to save the other 20 shots left… didn’t make those memories priceless.

    Also people, back that shit up. When my kids turned 18 I shared a drive with them of all their younger years and have a digital executor for when I die who knows where the pics are (and what to delete 😏)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    We didn't have a ton of photos on display at our house, weirdly. Good on you for getting the pics to your kids. My mom shares the pictures of our childhood with us, but also with our cousins - for some of them those are the only childhood pics they've got. My dad has shared the login to the huge family cloud account with several of us for safety

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I guess those digital picture frames can be useful if setup correctly, but I'd have to go and filter the actual good photos from my big pile of random pictures

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