For my 500th post, I thought I'd bring a topic here that I've seen a lot about recently not just on the forum, but several other travel groups I lurk. The Instagram effect during travel.
Here, we mainly talk about how Instagram has been effecting dating markets in certain cities and countries. Other people talk about how it's been ruining certain destinations.
But, I think something not enough people talk about is how it can potentially ruin very specific travel moments. Whether that's a temple or something man made we are trying to see, a nature spot, general behavior of other tourists, or a girl's attitude on a date or at a bar/club directly because of Instagram. What specific travel moment has been ruined by Instagram for you?
I'll start with mine. A while ago, something I always wanted to see was the Northern Lights in Iceland. Well, I did that, but it came with speed bumps. There were about 10 people around me trying to view the lights, and two of them were decent looking girls who were about to approach the wall. We all weren't sure if the lights were gonna be on display, but there was a good chance of it.
Sure enough, the lights came out, and one of the people had a tripod camera to really brighten the lights a lot more than the naked eye could see. I was really turned off by the whole idea, but sure enough the two approaching wall girls were buzzing in excitement that they were going to get their picture with the "lights". They straight up told me they were having anxiety about getting the fucking picture, more than taking in the real life moment of seeing a rare phenomenon.
Guy offered to take their picture of the fake lights and everyone in the area jumped on that. Everyone except me anyway. Worst of all, once people got their picture, they just left a few minutes later. Admittedly, it was a little cold, but I was thinking to myself I may be lucky to see this once in my life, the girls tried to see this for three days. Yet they just go inside after the picture.
I was just in disbelief how much Instagram changed the perception and attitude for a rare site in the world and how people really don't take moments in and just enjoy being in it. I ended up staying out an extra two hours by myself just listening to music and staring at one of the clearest and most beautiful skies in the middle of nowhere Iceland I've ever seen of the pure moment with a brighter sky touching over the snow-capped mountains, not the Photoshop enhanced lights for Instagram. But, I'll always have the above attached to it and know that Instagram made the lights look more like a Hollywood movie set online than what the reality is.
Here, we mainly talk about how Instagram has been effecting dating markets in certain cities and countries. Other people talk about how it's been ruining certain destinations.
But, I think something not enough people talk about is how it can potentially ruin very specific travel moments. Whether that's a temple or something man made we are trying to see, a nature spot, general behavior of other tourists, or a girl's attitude on a date or at a bar/club directly because of Instagram. What specific travel moment has been ruined by Instagram for you?
I'll start with mine. A while ago, something I always wanted to see was the Northern Lights in Iceland. Well, I did that, but it came with speed bumps. There were about 10 people around me trying to view the lights, and two of them were decent looking girls who were about to approach the wall. We all weren't sure if the lights were gonna be on display, but there was a good chance of it.
Sure enough, the lights came out, and one of the people had a tripod camera to really brighten the lights a lot more than the naked eye could see. I was really turned off by the whole idea, but sure enough the two approaching wall girls were buzzing in excitement that they were going to get their picture with the "lights". They straight up told me they were having anxiety about getting the fucking picture, more than taking in the real life moment of seeing a rare phenomenon.
Guy offered to take their picture of the fake lights and everyone in the area jumped on that. Everyone except me anyway. Worst of all, once people got their picture, they just left a few minutes later. Admittedly, it was a little cold, but I was thinking to myself I may be lucky to see this once in my life, the girls tried to see this for three days. Yet they just go inside after the picture.
I was just in disbelief how much Instagram changed the perception and attitude for a rare site in the world and how people really don't take moments in and just enjoy being in it. I ended up staying out an extra two hours by myself just listening to music and staring at one of the clearest and most beautiful skies in the middle of nowhere Iceland I've ever seen of the pure moment with a brighter sky touching over the snow-capped mountains, not the Photoshop enhanced lights for Instagram. But, I'll always have the above attached to it and know that Instagram made the lights look more like a Hollywood movie set online than what the reality is.
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