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18 Mar 2020
Younger generations lack experience with physical photographs and the rituals surrounding them.

This week, a friend of mine was showing a young lady in her 20s snapshots from about, oh, 40 years ago. And he handed her the yellowed photos, and she held them like you'd handle bones from an extinct mammal. And it hit me. She never held snapshots before. Photos. Ever. Never before. I mean, she's got a smartphone, an iPhone, but all her pictures are on a screen and may be printed for a special occasion, but that's rare. She knew nothing of Polaroid Kodak, Kodachrome, one-hour Photoshops, and we're not even talking home movies.

18 Mar 2020
Young people today do not understand or value physical photographs and the tangible experience of looking at photo albums.

I mean, she's got a smartphone, an iPhone, but all her pictures are on a screen and may be printed for a special occasion, but that's rare. She knew nothing of Polaroid Kodak, Kodachrome, one-hour Photoshops, and we're not even talking home movies. So right now you can tell that the setup is kids these days. Yes, yeah, yeah. This is Andy Rooney. Exactly. This is Andy Rooney all the way. Yeah, it lives in the genre of these kids don't know anything about X, Y, or Z thing. They don't know about chasing a hoop down the road with a stick. I was going to say, what are we doing? These kids have never worked in the coal mine. Right, right. It has that feel of it. Look, I'm not hearkening back to those days. No way. But what really got me... It was when she asked, when were these photos taken? How old were they? And I said, well, turn the photo over. And it was a printed month and year. She'd never seen a snapshot. Remember when you'd get your photos back? And every now and then, through some snafu, you'd get the wrong batch. And just for a moment, just for a moment, you thought, who are these people? How do we remember taking these photos? Who are they? Remember before when photo books came with the clear plastic sleeve? Remember before that you had these little black almost construction paper albums and you'd glue in these little triangles to hold the pictures in place? I'd spend hours looking at the same pictures and now that I can see theoretically the pictures on a phone or computer or screen, it's just not the same. Why? Because it's better today! That's why!