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r/unpopularopinion•
DeclanCollatzMath

I don’t care how many snaps you take at an event, You aren’t having as much fun as someone with their phone in their pocket.

There’s a direct correlation between the amount of time you spend on a phone at an event, and the amount of fun you’re having.

If you wanna record shit, whack a go pro on your head and go nuts. Taking out your phone to record shit doesn’t do anything except make it out like the stuff on your phone is more interesting than the things going on around you.

If you have the time to take 50 snaps of a concert, you aren’t that interested in it. You’re there to show others that you’re having fun, not actually have fun.

Posted Aug 3, 2018, 11:55 PM UTC

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some1stoleit•

Nothing wrong with taking a few snaps of an event, as long as you aren't spending most of your time looking at your screen I'd say you're balancing both things.

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

I agree. If you wanna take a picture, fine. If you wanna film the whole fucking thing... Why?

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td719•

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

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Elliotdanoob•

Yes

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MissMetal777•

People recording the whole time make it incredinly difficult for other people trying to enjoy the show.

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keegan112099•

I can look back on it and remember it. I can show family who might want to see what it was like. I travelled to the Dominican recently and took tons of videos for my family. They had never left the country before and chances are never will be able to. It's also nice to look back on moments like that when I'm feeling shitty. A reminder of happier times

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INBOXMEPICTURES•

Yeah but as someone who's paid $90 for a ticket to see one of my favourite artists, I find it rude and narcissistic as hell seeing a wave of hundreds of phones filming just to prove to their friends that they're cool and actually where they said they were.

I want to see the artist, not hundreds of phones in the air blocking them. Your footage looks like shit anyway.

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SadBoiHour•

Maybe I just want to show other people that I’m having fun without them to make them feel bad.>:(

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[deleted]•

I agree and I would love to put my camera away because of this, but I have the shittiest memory in the world and I really do rely on the photos and videos to trigger my memory of what happened that day.

I think more events need to offer digital videos of the event. For a reasonable price of course.

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INBOXMEPICTURES•

Jack White has a personal photograper that goes around with him on tour. He hates the whole phones out at concerts thing.

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hyperRed13•

This is the reason I take lots of photos as well. Going back through my digital photo albums makes me happy and serves as the memory I don't have. I've had to learn to find a balance between capturing the mood of an event or place, and then putting the phone down for a while and living in the moment.

I think having professional photographers and videographers at more events is a great idea.

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Birdleur•

r/phonesarebad

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P2T7•

My rule at concerts is one picture, and two 10-second Snapchats allowed per performer. No full songs, no videos of every song. Just a quick one of the favorites.

One girl I have on Snapchat literally has a 30 minute story every time she goes to a concert. It’s brutal.

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MachoToughGuy•

The person who took pictures and video can relive the experience of being at a concert more vividly than someone who has to depend on their memory of the event.

You're just mad your camera ran out of space when you were at a Taylor Swift concert because you collected one too many videos and pictures of mens' cocks.

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

Relive the experience

You mean the experience of watching the concert through a phone screen trying to battle everyone in front of you for a shot?

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MachoToughGuy•

You act like people do not have the ability to focus their camera on a subject with their hand and then proceed to look elsewhere.

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

looks at username

Can I take this guy seriously?

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Benvincent9177I liek pussy•

looks at your username

This guy's username sucks just as much as the original commenter

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alotofbruhness•

Maybe I want to remember said moment forever and show it to my future children...?

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jazztrophysicist•

This is pure pretentiousness, with no redeeming qualities. You are in no way remotely qualified to comment with any of this apparent certainty that your version of fun is more satisfying for you, than someone else’s version of fun is for them. You’re attempting to treat as objective, universal fact what is in actuality an inherently subjective experience. I suppose it feels good to try to elevate yourself above others in the privacy of your own mind, I mean we’ve all done it, but at some point it’s just childish. This is one such point.

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

Damn, you waited 41 days to write that?

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jazztrophysicist•

Yeah, I saw this post and just ruminated and obsessed over your wisdom, searching for ways to counter it, for 6 weeks. Plausible.

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

Put the thesaurus away

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jazztrophysicist•

But it’s so useful! With a large-enough vocabulary you can make use of a wider range of specificity in your speech, even if its value is lost on most. Those who appreciate it are the ones who matter anyway, because they’re generally in charge.

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Raven9nine9•

For some people the most enjoyment comes from trying to ensure everyone they know thinks they are out having fun and doing things because then hopefully everyone will think they are this crazy wild partying person they wish they were and not the boring nerdy dweeb with their face permanently pointed at the phone screen that they really are.

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Karakurizer•

I'm not sure the quote but from Walter Mitty. "Sometimes I don't want the distraction of the camera, I just want to enjoy the moment"

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okpickle•

Yup. I can see someone wanting a couple pics to remember something by but recording the entire thing, or taking a million pics, makes it harder to actually enjoy the event. Been there, done that.

Not to mention the vids people take, like at concerts, are usually total shit. Pictures, too. I'd rather have a picture or two of myself at the concert or event, than some blurry, bad pic of the event or place itself.

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the-peoplesbadger•

If people weren’t filming then we’d miss out on so many great clips.

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rwhitson•

Dude. I totally agree. I hate it when people video everything. I think it’s better to live in the moment and it’s just not the same experience when you look back and watch what happened instead of actively watching it happen.

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something_whatnot•

The idea behind Beme was amazing, but no one liked it. :(

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

Why was it amazing exactly?

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something_whatnot•

It had a great idea of keeping everyone from staring at their phones in public and editing stuff to seem like they’re perfect and whatnot.

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DeclanCollatzMathOP•

Just looked it up.

What the fuck were they thinking.

“I’m on the toilet let me just check out the beme stories .... oops i just took a picture of my weiner”

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