• Deconceptualist
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      2012 days ago

      No kidding! Glad someone gets it. A couple I know who Instagrammed their entire cross-Europe vacation last year couldn’t understand why I don’t want to travel at the same time as them this year even though we’re going some of the same places 🤦‍♂️

      • @[email protected]
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        1612 days ago

        Well don’t leave us hanging! Does their house get robbed every time they’re away on vacation and posting about it on social media?

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          Not yet, but it’s not a chance I’d be willing to take. They have at least one neighbor who’s supposedly been arrested for theft. He used to watch their dogs for them but when they found out they stopped talking to him and changed the locks.

          • @freebee
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            are you going to rob them while they’re away?

  • cobysev
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    13013 days ago

    Personally. I don’t consider it a vacation until I’m cut off from everyone and everything. Let me relax in peace for a while, without distractions.

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          1812 days ago

          I’m a woman and haven’t posted a single thing from any vacation I’ve taken in years, maybe even a decade now.

          • @[email protected]
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            812 days ago

            Simply impossible! The species “female” physically cannot do that! I know because I as a man can do that and a basic rule of thumb is “if a man can do it a woman cannot and the things that women do could be done by a man but make him gay”

            /s

    • Gormadt
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      1313 days ago

      Spitting facts right there

      Hell my favorite places to go hiking don’t even have cell service

      • @[email protected]
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        612 days ago

        I love taking a motorcycle up to the Radio Quiet Zone in VA and WV. There ain’t shit up there and no one can get in touch with me for days.

        Just slowly cruising through the mountains and disconnected in a way that I haven’t been since before my first work cell phone.

        • Gormadt
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          It truly is bliss being disconnected from everything every now and then

          No Internet, no phone calls, no texts, nothing.

          Being truly disconnected from the world at large.

          If people need me, they can wait until I get back from my hike or my vacation as I’m truly unreachable unless someone hikes out there too.

    • @[email protected]
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      913 days ago

      That’s exactly why I’m taking my first cruise this year, and I’ll be damn sure that the Wi-Fi doesn’t work

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    I hate selfies, so whenever I’m on vacation I just take pictures of my surroundings but never with me in it. Once, my cousin wanted to see my vacation pics, so I showed them to him. He then asked why I’m not in any of them. When I said I didn’t think it was necessary, his genuine confused reply was, “But how do people know you were really there, then?”

    It’s really insane out there.

    • @[email protected]
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      2712 days ago

      This is how I take pictures, I take pictures of the things I am seeing so I can look back at those moments later. I don’t experience life in third person, observing myself from overhead like a video game, so why would I want myself in the pictures?

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      the neat part is they don’t. unless you tell them about the trip. I too only take pictures of my surroundings, with my camera app, for myself, without the intend of sharing more than maybe one of them. unless I happend to put something on a family group chat or something

    • @[email protected]
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      1512 days ago

      I have a counterpoint. I used to be the same way but then I realized I just had a bunch of amateur photos of places where professional photos were readily available, basically wasted effort. So now I try to capture the people I’m with in the photos as a way to remember our trip together. This is also great fodder to make photo books for the grandmas.

      • @[email protected]
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        912 days ago

        Same for me. I took multiple trips as a young adult where I just took scenery photos. Twenty years later I really regretted not including myself and family in those photos. Think of yourself in the future and skip sharing them online.

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        I’m the same when I’m going on a vacation with my parents! I want to have as much memories captured with them as possible… But it’s only when I’m with them lol. I usually go to vacations solo, and the pictures without me is still memories to me–even if it’s a bad picture and not professional quality, it’s still something I saw and experienced myself. Like maybe my sunset picture I took is crooked or too dark etc, but when I see it I remember the moment I was there; it captured exact hue of the sky that I saw, the birds that I was watching earlier, the clouds that I thought looked like a Pokemon and made me smile. The better pictures that other people took do not have that, so for me personally, it’s not a wasted effort.

        The other day I was looking at my solo vacation pictures from 10, 15 years ago without me in them, and the memories are still with me.

        Anyway, I think that although we take them differently, we both agree that vacation pictures should be for our memories, and not for “showing other people that we were REALLY there” (as my cousin said, haha…)

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      One time I found this old home movie my grandma made of their visit to the Grand Canyon back in the 50s. She’s filming the scenery and a couple times you can barely see my dad and uncles run by. We’re watching this in the mid ’00s – 50 years later, near the end of her life. She goes “Why didn’t I point the camera at them? I don’t care about the Grand Canyon."

      That’s when I quit taking pictures without people in them.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1hpb5j/comment/cawuf50/

    • @[email protected]
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      1412 days ago

      Right? I only ever use pics to refer back to certain incidents “like see, on the 8th of December this what happened that day Cindy you fucking liar” and so on

    • @[email protected]
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      612 days ago

      I take plenty. It’s nice to reminiscent and often family and friends ask to see something. I don’t post them anywhere though.

      • @[email protected]
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        912 days ago

        The problem with trying to observe a vacation is the amount of light involved. Experiments have shown that applying the necessary amount of light to render the vacation observable often results in the whole thing being called off anyway.

        • @Klear
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          The need for vacation within a closed system always goes up.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        you can not measure the location and the speed of your vacation at the same time with high precision

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      I volunteer to witness vacations if anyone needs help.

  • @[email protected]
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    Sadly, this was a thing even before the web, let alone social media. There’s always been people for whom the vacations didn’t even “happen” unless they get to go on incessantly about them when they come back, ideally subjecting you to two hours of photos that mean very little to you. They derive little enjoyment from actually being there, they take it from showing it others…

    For some people life is not worth living without external validation. Sad.

  • @[email protected]
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    3412 days ago

    Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world and I’ll burn my phone and go no contact with anyone I know ever again

  • @casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer
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    Someone never cruised before social media was invented and now suffers brain rot. A lot of people actually.

    Stare out at a vast expanse of water and think about life, children.

  • @[email protected]
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    3112 days ago

    I understand wanting to share pictures of your trip and stuff, but if it’s such a compulsive need you wouldn’t be able to not do it, you’ve got issues.