The Tyranny of Other People’s Vacation Photos (2016)
The NYT article about over-sharing vacation photos can be generalized to the widespread human nature of narcissism:  people share too many personal highlights that most others don&#x27;t care about.<p>E.g. new mother shares endless stream of baby photos while most of her 20-something ex-college friends&#x2F;coworkers are oversaturated with it. (E.g. the sentiment that if you&#x27;ve seen one blob of an undifferentiated poop machine in diapers, you&#x27;ve seen them all.)  Yes, the infant is <i>The Most Interesting Person In The World</i> to that mother so it seems logical to her that others would find her posted photos to be interesting too.<p>On a large scale, we simply have no self-awareness about our narcissism and its banality to others.<p>Long before the existence of the internet and Facebook in the days of film photography, hosts would torture their dinner guests by having them gather in the living room and flip through slides[1] of the hosts&#x27; vacation.  The guests silently suffer through the boring presentation but of course, etiquette means nobody would dare say, &quot;Joe, this is boring and we&#x27;re going home now.&quot;  Polite society on a large-scale, self-censors the expression of boredom which perversely continues the large-scale unawareness that sharing too many personal highlights is subjecting friends to cruel &amp; unusual punishment.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=kodak+slide+carousel+slide+projector&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=kodak+slide+carousel+slide+p...</a>