It is not about having fun. It is not about enjoying a great moment. It is not about having an amazing experience. It is not about an exciting life. It is not about getting an impression anymore... at least not on oneself! It is about capturing that impression in some device that will allow show it to the world. It is about how much fun everybody thinks one is having. What a great moment someone shares with friends and family. What an amazing experience it WAS.
It is a disease. Living the moment seems not good enough anymore unless a good bulk of social network relatives, friends and followers acknowledge what a great moment it was. Memories do not really count unless there is recorded proof of them... Taking a pictures or recording a video for sharing, tagging, commenting and liking those favourite moments IS the experience, not whatever is on those images... that is just the excuse.
Photos: Foo Fighters' leader Dave Grohl leaves the stage at the Roundhouse in London, on one of the iTunes Festival 2011 gigs, and runs all the way to the backbar, to perform a guitar solo. Who in their right mind would not think of capturing that unexpected moment on their mobile phone cameras? (Source: YouTube, with all the footage being taken it was dead easy to find several!)
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