First Click: it’s hard to dance with the whole world watching
The oft-quoted line “you’ve got to dance like nobody’s watching” originates from a country song written in 1987. That’s twenty years before the iPhone would go on sale and create an explosion of digital imagery thanks to its built-in camera.
Now that the whole world has a camera it’s getting harder and harder to pretend nobody’s watching.
Last year, a16z’s Benedict Evans did a fascinating comparison of modern day photography and the film camera business at its 1999 peak. According to Evans, people were posting Over 1.5 billion new photos every day on Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat, equating to about 550 billion images a year on those services alone — over 1 trillion images if all services were factored in, or about 1.5 per smartphone…
Source:: The Verge
