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When family documentation becomes performance for social media

My family spends more time taking photos of our activities than actually experiencing them and my kids have started asking if something 'counts' if we don't post about it. We wanted to document memories but somewhere it shifted into performing our lives for social media and I don't know how to get back to just being together.

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A family discovers that attempting to capture moments has replaced the experience of living them.

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