One piece of
technology that has affected the human experience is the invention and
popularity of the camera within the cell phone. It seems as though almost
everyone in America is ready and able to snap a picture or film a short video
clip at any given moment.
This new age, where
everyone has a camera at all times, is very interesting because it has such
positive and such negative consequences. For the good, always having a camera
can allow you to capture all kinds of beautiful moments that you may miss otherwise.
Anything from a surprise birthday party to a backyard stunt, or my personal
favorite, sunsets.
(Photos I took with my camera phone)
On the other hand,
because of cell phone cameras, it is much harder to get away with doing stupid
stuff under the radar. Who knows how many job opportunities have been lost due
to something that surfaced on social media after being immortalized by the cell
phone. I know I myself have received a few phone calls from my mother demanding
that I remove pictures of myself that other people have posted to my facebook.
Guys
like Daniel Tosh and Rob Dyrdek don’t know how easy they’ve got it. Back when
Bob Sagett was running America’s Funniest Home Videos, you couldn’t just carry
your camcorder in your pocket and then instantly send it in. Oh no, you’d have
to film it on some huge, low quality, expensive piece of equipment and then
send in a physical tape through the postal service.
Camera
phones haven’t just changed the way we entertain ourselves, they’ve changed the
way we communicate, half the time I receive a text message it is a picture
message and don’t even get me started about snapchat.
