Sunday, April 25, 2004
High Tech Vacation Slides
The clichéd horror of forced viewings of Aunt Ethel's most recent vacation slides has a whole new complexion with the advent of online photo albums, e-mailable images, and photo blogs.
You are no longer a captive audience on a plastic covered couch, required to "oooh" and "ahhh" at the 82nd photo of the new baby. On the flip side, Aunt Ethel just might figure out how to fill your inbox with all 82 shots. No need to visit her in Florida.
You could spend endless amounts of time on the web pages like this one looking at what ultimately amounts to a published personal photo album. You could also spend endless amounts of time putting up such pages.
My sister-in-law would not be likely to snail mail photos of the monstrous snow plow my brother welded to go on a tractor at work to the whole family and more than a few friends; but popping off an e-mail to everyone in the address book, forgedaboutit. It is pretty cool to be able to instantly connect with friends and family over great distance in this way.
There is always a chance you could end up as the next schmuck passed out drunk and decorated with the link being forwarded all over the world wide web. You could find out from a co-worker that the you ended up showing your boobs to a few (thousand) more people than were at that little bar to get your beads on Fat Tuesday.
From petroglyphs to present day man has been sharing his own story with others through pictures. Check out the new wall in our digital cave.
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