Making posts about how you’re not home is bad OpSec.
Hey everyone! Come fuck my shit up while I’m away! K thanx.
Look at my post history, take your pick of all my shiny things, with pictures of their condition you can scrape to sell them on ebay!
No kidding! Glad someone gets it. A couple I know who Instagrammed their entire cross-Europe vacation last year couldn’t understand why I don’t want to travel at the same time as them this year even though we’re going some of the same places 🤦♂️
Well don’t leave us hanging! Does their house get robbed every time they’re away on vacation and posting about it on social media?
Not yet, but it’s not a chance I’d be willing to take. They have at least one neighbor who’s supposedly been arrested for theft. He used to watch their dogs for them but when they found out they stopped talking to him and changed the locks.
are you going to rob them while they’re away?
Personally. I don’t consider it a vacation until I’m cut off from everyone and everything. Let me relax in peace for a while, without distractions.
For real. This is the primary feature of vacation.
I don’t even take pictures
Hmmm
I would absolutely not go if I had to post something.
I hate selfies, so whenever I’m on vacation I just take pictures of my surroundings but never with me in it. Once, my cousin wanted to see my vacation pics, so I showed them to him. He then asked why I’m not in any of them. When I said I didn’t think it was necessary, his genuine confused reply was, “But how do people know you were really there, then?”
It’s really insane out there.
the neat part is they don’t. unless you tell them about the trip. I too only take pictures of my surroundings, with my camera app, for myself, without the intend of sharing more than maybe one of them. unless I happend to put something on a family group chat or something
This is how I take pictures, I take pictures of the things I am seeing so I can look back at those moments later. I don’t experience life in third person, observing myself from overhead like a video game, so why would I want myself in the pictures?
I have a counterpoint. I used to be the same way but then I realized I just had a bunch of amateur photos of places where professional photos were readily available, basically wasted effort. So now I try to capture the people I’m with in the photos as a way to remember our trip together. This is also great fodder to make photo books for the grandmas.
Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world and I’ll burn my phone and go no contact with anyone I know ever again
Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world
https://foreignlegion.info/joining/ bon voyage & bonne chance!
are you really vacationing if there is no one to witness it
I understand wanting to share pictures of your trip and stuff, but if it’s such a compulsive need you wouldn’t be able to not do it, you’ve got issues.
Yeah, plus it’s not like you couldn’t just share stuff when you get home.
This is the only way I ever publicly share any information about my travels. Don’t want to advertise that there’s nobody home.
Sadly, this was a thing even before the web, let alone social media. There’s always been people for whom the vacations didn’t even “happen” unless they get to go on incessantly about them when they come back, ideally subjecting you to two hours of photos that mean very little to you. They derive little enjoyment from actually being there, they take it from showing it others…
For some people life is not worth living without external validation. Sad.
