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Sharing your precious memories

How can we create easier ways to share our experiences with friends and family?

View A

Sharing and viewing pictures and stories electronically is both economical and convenient. It is by far the easiest way to share photographs and stories.

View B

I prefer traditional ways of sharing photographs and stories with family and friends. It's important to spend time and share on a more personal level.

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Andrewww thinks: Old school sharing versus New school sharing resulting in mass creativity

>The internet, mobile phones and digital camera’s have dramatically changed the way and the frequency we capture and share our daily doings and interests.

Capturing and sharing experiences is so cheap and easy to do now a days that we seem to overload each other with it. Has this explosion in quantity has countered quality?

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Take YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, Myspace and other examples of ‘broadcast yourself’ platforms. Any- and everybody is broadcasting experiences. The snapshotting culture has resulted in a new form of ‘mass creativity’ there are some pretty wild things going on online at this moment.

One of my favourites`examples is ‘Mia’s own song’. A young girl films herself playing guitar and singing a song in her at home in her bedroom. The movie is posted on YouTube. Several days later a drummer has recorded a drumriff and merged this in to Mia original video and posted the result on YouTube. After a while other musicians do the same and soon a full pledge composition is co-created online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c&mode=related&search=

Andrewww thinks: Here's the correct link to 'Mia's own song' at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c

herrylaw thinks: This is not an either/or issue. I use Picasa/ Hello to share photos and chat with family and friends in Australia, Japan and China while maintaining a photo archive on Flickr.

On the other hand, I will print out photos (via Photobox) to post to 'View B' friends in France.

It's often time consuming and expensive to get physically together -although that experience is of course preferable. But even then, I would prefer to run a slideshow on my laptop for them than laboriously print off photos from which to make a physical collection.