{"id":34860,"date":"2022-01-31T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34860"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:05:59","slug":"on-photo-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/on-photo-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"On Photo Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2022\/01\/thoughts-on-photo-sharing\/\">Mike Rockwell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2022\/01\/thoughts-on-photo-sharing\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve since deleted the Instagram app from my iPhone and have only jumped back into my timeline once or twice through a web browser. Each time I came out of it feeling worse than when I went in. I don&rsquo;t want to do that anymore.<\/p><p>But it got me thinking about photo sharing in general. And more specifically about how we&rsquo;ve created this efficient system for sharing to a mass audience. The <em>personal<\/em> aspect of photos is lost in the sharing process. When I would post a photo, I wouldn&rsquo;t receive any comments, it never sparked any conversations. I would just get a handful of likes and that was that. What&rsquo;s the point? It&rsquo;s become a game of vanity where the number of likes you receive is the only feedback mechanism. It stinks.<\/p><p>As an experiment, I started sharing photos with individual people, privately, over iMessage. I wouldn&rsquo;t send them a whole collection of photos, just one at a time here and there. And what I found is that when you send an individual person a photo privately, you actually spark a conversation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rockwell: I&rsquo;ve since deleted the Instagram app from my iPhone and have only jumped back into my timeline once or twice through a web browser. Each time I came out of it feeling worse than when I went in. I don&rsquo;t want to do that anymore.But it got me thinking about photo sharing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-31T21:06:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"0a7a65cc-af4a-4d9a-9d37-9c3af88bcaad","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-31T21:06:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACnplzK9KTZqdN5w6-IvKrQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1650,25,140,1286,153,96],"class_list":["post-34860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-children","tag-facebook","tag-imessage","tag-instagram","tag-photography","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34861,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860\/revisions\/34861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}