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I used to believe this. Was very “put your phone down and just experience the moment,” or “there’s 100 other people recording and uploading this, why should I?” As I’ve gotten older and am scrolling 10 years back in my photo library it’s these stupid videos or pictures I didn’t delete that send me back to a moment I’d otherwise forgotten. I make more of an effort now to document stuff even if it’s stupid.
It's worth taking photos of the mundane, the everyday. Your commute to work, your kitchen, the friendly dog you pass every day, the view from your bedroom window. And of course the people you see everyday. These memories actually mean something, they are a part of your life. Much more so than a firework going off or some famous landmark you've seen once, of which there are a million photos all better than yours.
Yeah. OP's fallacy is thinking that people imagine they'd video stuff with the intention of sitting down with it with popcorn like it was a movie. I'm recording it to help me remember the experience of that day.
Telling other people how to enjoy themselves is dickhead behaviour.
Take a few pictures to remember the event, but then put the camera down and enjoy the moment.
This is it. Capture the moment but not at the expense of the moment.