It’s the way I felt about Facebook albums. I even feel embarrassed when I look at other people’s posts. I still do it, but I'm embarrassed when I post. To be clear, I find posting on Instagram mortifying. I'm no longer in college, and I never open Facebook anymore, but I've watched my former classmates post countless semester-in-review photo dumps that feel oddly reminiscent of my Facebook album days. I'm not the only one who's noticed. Today, photo dumps on Instagram have replaced the Facebook album. A Facebook album was your b-roll of the semester. It was a way to document all of the mundane moments that weren’t Instagram-worthy. You expect someone to go through 50 photos from your sorority’s date party? C'mon. In 2017, I primarily opened Facebook for three things: coordinating with campus organizations in Facebook groups, looking at my college meme page, and posting photo albums at the end of each semester.ĭuring the week before finals, in a tried and true procrastination technique, all my friends would go through their photos from the semester and carefully pick out all the photos that best conveyed "I am having fun in college." Then they would upload them into a Facebook album that was typically titled with a silly, unfunny joke that reflected which year in college they were in, like "Senior Citizen" or "Sophomore Slump."Ī Facebook album was your b-roll of the semester.Īt the time, posting a Facebook album was a little self-involved and cringey. It didn't actually die, but rather, it stopped being a social media platform that young people actually used, which is to say it lost all relevancy. I was a freshman in college when Facebook died.
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