Thanks to my mother, my childhood is thoroughly captured in photo and video. I was born in 2004, so it was exactly the era of the digital camera being trendy, and my mum was a little ahead of the times and the first of her friends to use Facebook. As a result, she used to put mine and my little sister's photos up on Facebook so that friends and family who lived far away could see us grow up. Around the time of my teens, I began to find this embarassing and I made my mum stop, so there aren't many photos of me from around 13, but there are still many of my little sister.
Now, when I look at those photos she uploaded in order, not only can I see my nostalgic memories recorded but I can also clearly see how cameras' technology has evolved. For instance, around 2010, my mum got her first iPhone which had a camera attached, and I noticed from that time onwards there are more videos. Across the course of the 2010s, the quality of the photos levels up rapidly, but one way or another it's those oldest, blurrily taken digital camera photos that I like the most. You can feel the atmosphere of that time, and I am made to think that because my mum wasn't holding her iPhone in her hand when she took it, she was truly living in that moment.
If I were to have children, I wonder what I would do. Since it's overwhelming and I find stress tends to build up, I'm currently living my life without using social media, but I guess in the end I do want to inform my friends and family about my children, like my mum did, and for my children themselevs it may become something nostalgic they can reflect on in the future. However, the function of modern day iPhones is so advanced that of you take quite so many high-quality photos I imagine it would become overwhelming.
If possible, I guess I will buy a digital camera. Like my mum did for me, I want to capture my childrens' lives on film.