pictures

It's estimated that 1.8 BILLION photographs are taken every day!! 
Right now, I have almost 1,000 pictures on my phone. There they are, on my phone. What am I going to do with them? I've already deleted 100's of them. Should I send them to Walgreen's and print them out? Do I actually want to keep them all? They are all stored in "the cloud" so if I lose my phone, I'll still have my pictures. I wonder how many pictures are stored in the cloud right now. Is there a shelf life for that data? Will they be in the cloud forever? That's a lot of data.

When I was a kid and all the way to adulthood, you had to take pictures with a camera that used film. My first camera was a Brownie;

I think my next camera was a 110 camera;

Remember those?

Next, I think my camera looked like this;

That style of camera, 35mm, took me all the way to about 2003, when I got my first digital camera. I have a 1/2 dozen SD memory cards with pictures on them, most of which I have never printed. Is anyone but me going to look at them?

I was thinking about all that last December. I made a couple of photo/scrapbooks for Mom for Christmas. It's actually kinda cool to look through a photo album. It made me want to look through all of my old ones. Honestly though, ALL of my photo albums put together, probably don't contain a 1,000 pictures. 

Anyway...looking through all my photo albums, there aren't a lot of pictures of the kids growing up. You had to take the picture, wait till you used all 24 (or more) take the film to the drugstore and wait a couple days to get them back and pay for them. As a teenager, I had to save to get my film developed! I bet I still have at least a few of those film canisters with undeveloped film in them. These days, parents document everyday of their kids lives! Teenagers take a zillion pictures, of themselves, everyday! But what happens to them?? I was wondering, will my grandchildren ever have paper pictures to show THEIR kids? Will their kids ever hold a picture in their hand, of their great grandparents? And maybe their kids will just Google whoever they want to see, because by then, everything will be digital. Isn't that weird??