2013-01-02, 04:29 PM
[MENTION=44]Loose[/MENTION]; Your remarks made me laugh heartily. I came back because I remembered that I had a bit of commentary to do on that rule about not taking pictures everywhere and this is what I think of it:
See, your first thought may be that it's just plain weird to ask him not to take pictures; what's an iPhone good for then (I assume this must at least be a 4S)? Then there's those of you who say it's about not camwhoring but I say it's more likely that she just does not want her son to be so dependent on the iPhone to even capture memories. As for why I think so, I recall a story from Reader's Digest about a mother so obsessed with recording the important events of her family's lives that she never quite saw or experienced it for herself since she was too busy adjusting the lenses and such to live in the moment.
After all, taking a picture of a flower is hardly as interactive as touching it, smelling it and also seeing it.
See, your first thought may be that it's just plain weird to ask him not to take pictures; what's an iPhone good for then (I assume this must at least be a 4S)? Then there's those of you who say it's about not camwhoring but I say it's more likely that she just does not want her son to be so dependent on the iPhone to even capture memories. As for why I think so, I recall a story from Reader's Digest about a mother so obsessed with recording the important events of her family's lives that she never quite saw or experienced it for herself since she was too busy adjusting the lenses and such to live in the moment.
After all, taking a picture of a flower is hardly as interactive as touching it, smelling it and also seeing it.