Pictures, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The days of unlimited worldwide communication are upon us. My friend in NYC is only as far away as my blackberry. That said, some forms of media should be uploaded with a wee bit more discretion aka the picture. Mind you, I myself have gone a little overboard with my camera. I have more pictures of myself than is ever necessary. Maybe if I were a model it were to make more sense. But I'm not. And it doesn't. So anyways, what I've been noticing is the rampant uploading of ALL your pictures. The digital camera and your memory card of 200 ALL being uploaded to share with everyone. There's you and your friend Sherrie in front of the couch, there you two are again in front of the drinks making the pout, then again with the sexy look by the porch. All fun and I get a little camera happy myself, but I don't need to see ALL of them uploaded for the glory of how often I was caught in front of the food table (which would probably be every 15 minutes). And the most unwelcome is the "ugly picture". The one where you look like you just ate something that upset your stomach. Or like you've cut too many rugs. Those pictures. Which for some reason everyone thinks are hilarious. Well, that is, until their "ugly pictures" make the page. I do not want to see a minute by minute capturing of your 2 hour night. Same people, same place, different faces. One of my friends is always left taking a picture of the girls every time we go out, to the point he said "don't you have this picture already, ten million times?!" Sadly, yes, we do. And doesn't the whole picture taking actually take you away from living the moments because you're spending so much time capturing the moments? I'm all for capturing a great time, but I miss the film camera, the one take, the not everyone has to see what each picture looked like; when it was click and that's it. And there was no upload button. Film was printed up, you either got your shot or you didn't, and the ugly pic met the trash can. And you were left with really great memories and a photo album.

My advice: Just upload ten. Ten of the best pictures from your time and let everyone else get to imagine the great time that was missed.