Something that occurred to me last night while making copies

[kierthos]

I don't have any photo albums.

I mean, looking back, my grandparents had photo albums. Lots of them, as I recall. And when they took any pictures, they had to take them to a drugstore or whatever to get them developed.

My parents, and my aunts and uncles have photo albums. Same sort of deal, only a higher chance of Polaroid pictures.

Nowadays, you have even have printers that can fit on your damn desk that print photo quality (or pretty close to it), or you can take your digital pictures to any place that has a Sony PictureStation (or other name brand variant) and print them out yourself, with or without all the bells and whistles. (zooming in, redeye reduction, etc.)

But I see a lot less photo albums these days. (Fuck you, scrapbooking is not the same thing, and it's a goddamned waste of time for the most part. Also, a bitch to copy.)

Is this one of those things that are just largely going to go the way of the dodo? Like worrying about the cost of long distance calls, or having the milkman deliver milk? (I actually do remember having a milk crate at home when I was a kid because we did have milk deliveries up until I was, oh.... five or six.) Or is it just a phase?

Or is just because I don't go over to other people's places a lot?

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[jdack]

I don't have any either, save a few little ones I never got round to tossing.

Everyone keeps their precious pictures on their PC now. I know this for a fact because 95% of my last several years' cases of "omg my computer is ded halp!" situations have been 100% about "OMG MY PICTARES! SAVE MY PICTARES! OMG ALL MY PICTARES!"

Really, really irritates me. The pictures are of stupid shit. Why does everyone need an entire hard disk filled with photos of bbq's and fishing and such? They can't remember their poignant little fambly moments without photographs that they never, ever look at? Ugh. You'd think they were state secrets or maps to the lost city of Atlantis or something, the way these people act about their stupid photos.

Sorry. Ranting.

[kierthos]

I hear you. I've had to make copies of all kinds of things at work that I didn't think anyone would every want copies of. But eh, it's their money that they are spending.

Now if I could stop getting the tech support questions....

[jdack]

No chance. You sit behind a computer, demonstrate an ability to operate it, therefor to the customer U R COMPUTAR EXPERT.

And thus fuct.

[kierthos]

Yes, but I accept certain parts of it as part of my job, such as "How do I do X in Program Y?" (Usually something in MS Word or Powerpoint or Photoshop.)

I do not accept certain parts of it, though, such as hover nearby while I attempt to attach a picture to my e-mail (which could obviously only be done at 2 a.m.) or "Fix my floppy disk." (Yes. True story. A customer had a file on a 3-1/2 inch floppy disk. However, the file was unable to be printed as the little metal slide on the disk was broken. The customer then requested that I take a functional floppy, crack it open, crack open his disk, swap the magnetic media, close up the disk and get it to work. Even after insisting that I did not have the tools to do so, or the belief that it would actually work, the customer was adamant. Up to the point where I told them that I could not help them.)

[jdack]

Lol. That's a good one.

[kierthos]

I am eagerly awaiting the day when our work computers no longer have floppy drives. Given the relative cheapness of USB drives, this may not be far off.

[hillbillycavewoman]

I still have literally over a thousand printed photos, both in albums or awaiting album-mounting..but they've been at exactly the same level of non-put-awayness for the past five years.

It's true that my more recent photo albums are entirely online, and photo-sharing via da net has totally replaced the old ways, for me.

BUT. I FULLY INTEND to physically print all my enhanced/edited favorites (which may number another 1000)and put them into photo albums IRL.

No really, I will.

Someday.

(but then again, I'm old)

[thedeadcat]

I have a bunch of Wally photo albums from when I was extremely camera happy and developed all of it and stuffed 'em in the free booklets. I need to weed through these and throw most of it out, cause it's utter crap.

I have a big one that has more important things, but it needs new pages and to be rebuilt.

I have a smaller one that was a gift that's got older photos in it.

And I have a box that's full of extremely old family photos and stuff.


Most photos we've taken over the past few years, though? *points at computer* Because I've been very bad about taking a CD to the store to print out the good ones. Also I am frugal and they want too much goddamn money for individual prints.

So they haven't fallen out of favor so much as technology makes people fuckin' lazy.