Capturing social activities through photos or videos is more common phenomenon for today’s world. There are several reasons for this including a desire to create long lasting memories and sharing important moments through differents social networks, and in my opinion there are both merits and demerits of this situation.
One of the reasons why people are eager to record each moments of their life is that they want to save the sweets ones, such as weddings, getting awards, graduation ceremony, or gatherings with close friends, for many years in the future. For example, I, myself, captured every heartbreaking moments of my toddler including first steps, and firts words, as she has been growing up to see it later and memorize how we were happy together. Another reason is that due to the development of social media, increasing number of people are making vlogs by sharing photos and videos of their daily activities through the networks, such as instagram and tik tok. This phenomenon is globally trending which even helps to earn money according to the number of followers and interesting content.
On the one hand this development can help people to memorize their sweet memories and realize how they are happy in reality. It can improve their social and psychological well- being and fell thankful for what they have. Moreover, some even are making more budget by making lively vlogs about their social life and become famous. Take american bloger Oliver Pathen as an example, who became a millioner via just sharing social moments.
On the other hand, an eager to capture every moment of life can lead the people to skip the moment itself, the feeling that can be felt on that time will be effected by the thought of camera focus and light. Another disadvantage according to psychological concerns, negative comments on social networks may effect psychological well- being of a person which result to become more isolated or even in some cases to kill oneself due to depression.
In conclusion, shooting photos and videos of life activities is trending habit among people nowadays which has its own benefits as well as drawbacks.