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[ivyfic]

It occurs to me as I look at new phones that the there have been periods in my life where I carried around disposable cameras to try and capture as much as possible. The only thing that kept me from having the camera permanently glued to my face was the cost of film printing (between film and developing, about a buck a print). If I had had a digital camera, or - god forbid - a cameraphone, I would have taken terrabytes of photos. You'd be able to make stop motion films out of them.

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[feiran.livejournal.com]

As someone who has worked in the cell phone industry, I'd recommend LG, Samsung, or Audiovox phones over the others. :-)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

You mean I, too, will be able to annoy the hell out of other passengers on the subway now?

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Oh, that had nothing to do with games, just which phones were of good make, user-friendly, not prone to breakage, and Verizon-compatible.

They are *also* good for playing games. But any game worth its metaphorical salt will have a sound on/off option before the first melody anyway.

/snobbery

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

If you plan to take lots of photos, make sure there's an easy way to get them off the phone. Not all phones support that.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Oh, I haven't taken more than five photos since I graduated. I'm just saying there have been times in my life where I've gone through more than a roll of film a week. And I'm not talking about vacations, here. I'm talking about all of senior year in high school.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Are you saying your current group of friends aren't worth taking pictures of? Is that what you're saying? PUNK?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

No, I'm saying it's less socially acceptable to take photos now. Same thing happened to me freshman year - by taking a photo of someone, you're saying "I want to remember you as you are exactly at this moment." When you're just getting to know people, that can be awkward. Of course, you can make it less awkward by taking photos of everyone all the time, but that makes you the weird shutterbug person.

In college there are always occasions that merit pictures - whether it's the year coming to an end, or dean's date, or halloween on the street or drop trou - there are always "special" things happening. And because of that, it becomes much more acceptable to whip out the camera.

I also took a lot of photos in college because I was the Wildcats archivist. It was my job to be the shutterbug, so it wasn't awkward to be always asking people to pose for photos.

As you can see, I've spent way too much time thinking about the social implications of picture taking. Or it could just be that I'm six years behind on my scrapbooks anyways and I don't want to make it any worse.