Posting Your Photos

Again we humans are faced with a challenge regarding the use of technological progress. It is such a treasure to find out that we can do things that no one stops to think if we should. Back in the stone age of computers, in 2006, it was only possible for users of social networking sites like myspace and facebook to post a few measly photographs of themselves and their friends. Now, our uploading abilities are virtually unlimited. Sure, it seems like there is a 60 picture limit on individual facebook albums, but there's no reason you can't post a second album and call it "part two".

This is great! Now we can actually surf through someone's vacation slides without listening to their mundane, 45-minute chatter. We are free to browse photos and move along to other internet treats like Dramatic Chipmunk videos. Could life get any better?

Wait...what's that? Is that the 5th photo in a row of the same ugly mug in the same pose? Is that the 3rd straight shot of the same chapel, just with different people giving lame and poorly posed picture faces in front of it? Hey, look, my eyes are closed in that picture and I have a pot-belly. Who authorized them to plaster that all over the internet?

Do you know why old people running through reels of projected vacation slides is now cliche? Do you know why everyone had such a terrible time? Because 10 good pictures are better than 100 bad ones. No one wants to look at your bad photographs, only your good ones. Please, edit your photo albums and select only the good pictures to upload. I was really looking forward to good cross-sections of life on facebook, but usually I only get through about 15 pictures before realizing what a waste of time it was for you to even bring your camera to the party.

Just because you can post all of your pictures, doesn't mean you should. Show a little class and self-respect. If it's too much bother to give your albums quality, don't bother posting anything at all.

This is Ann Landers, signing off.