[Kodak: How George Eastman revolutionized photography] (Viewer #143,326)
Pictures used to be a way to say “this moment is meaningful enough for me to make everybody pose, and then wait a week while I get the film developed so that I can capture this image forever”.
Now it just means “I have my phone handy, and I will never look at this image again”.
It also means, “I’m such a narcissist that I truly believe everything I do should be recorded for posterity and to be lauded by others.”