Comment on It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For a long time I’ve posted actively to Facebook and then at the end of the year I have my pictures and top posts printed up in a nice “yearbook.” There’s a service that does this (but I’m not here to advertise them). Anyway I am raising kids through these years so sharing milestones and pictures with faroff friends and family is very rewarding.
But I’ve stopped posting so much that I don’t think there will be a yearbook for this year. It’s just not worth it anymore. Not enough people are going to see my posts, either because they’re no longer visiting or the fucking algorithm has something catchier to show them.
It’s sad because my kids love those books and leaf through them all the time, like a kind of family album. I guess it’s time for another solution.
I think now is a good time to forgo or reduce posting the images to Facebook and simply curate the photos yourself from your collection and make the photo album yourself.
If it’s for your kids, I think it’s worth it to make regardless of if it’s worth it to post it.
The entire concept of just sharing images of your kids online is weird to me to me begin with. Just make a photo album like everyone else did prior to social media. This person is upset the same 8 people are liking their photos, give up on the need for attention and just live your life.
Doesn’t Google Photos produce something similar from stored photos? I don’t use it much myself, as I don’t take many photos, but I’ve used it to view screenshots & such on my phone & I seem to recall something like that.
If so, would definitely be an option to avoid posting while producing a similar yearbook/photo album.
It does. One Drive does too.
Google will literally sell you photo books.
Only in limited countries (might be US only actually)
Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I get a yearbook from my iphone camera without posting to anything, just from taking photos. Social media isn’t needed for that feature.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep I will probably go for something like that. The Facebook based one offers more than just the pictures though. Also comments and text posts and link posts, etc.