'Someone is recording them recording': Family Gets Called Out For Filming New Mom and Baby on Phones, Sparks Debate About Recording Special Moments

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Dec 16, 2023 11:00 AM EST

Making memories is one of those Hallmark catchphrases that is genuinely very important. We wouldn't love our family and friends like we do if we didn't have the experiences to back it up. As a result, many people want to take photos on special occasions. The catch is that these days that goes hand in hand with the bogeyman of our screentime.

This is something that has recently caused controversy on Twitter. After a pair of new parents shared a video of their extended family meeting their baby, one poster despaired at the "dystopian" sight of several people recording the scene as they entered the room.

While some viewers agreed with that assessment, others wondered why it was such a big deal even if it wasn't really necessary to have that many people recording. One thing's for sure, living in the moment is something that means different things to different people.

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    LJA @crotchner2 everyone coming in to the room to meet their new grandchild viewing the scene solely through their phone cameras is so dystopian i can't Follow
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    kate @pulpy_fiction - 2d Replying to @crotchner2 when i have a baby im not letting anyone except me nd my partner have phones in the hospital room, this is so bad vibes Q12 2,598 120K 12 LJ @crotchner2.2d : I don't plan on letting anyone post photos of my baby without consent, the internet is too weird
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    AD @AD18635783-1d Replying to @crotchner2 cant just like one person film why are they all like that Q8 175 ♡4,731 l₁126K LJ @crotchner2.1d the guy taking the video should have been the only one filming imo
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    Jo @junker jo. 1d Replying to @crotchner2 that's how my courthouse wedding went lol 95 27 139 il₁1 78.8K LJ @crotchner2 - 1d a lot of my friends did no-tech ceremonies for precisely this reason lol
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    Bill Ari @ImBillRay • 1d Replying to @crotchner2 and someone is recording them recording anyway lol
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    TXNIZ @_txniz. 1d Replying to @crotchner2 It used to be digital cameras and handheld video cameras, now it's phones, relax.
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    jp @jourdanok. 1d Replying to @crotchner2 If phones existed back then it would've happened too, we just used disposable cameras
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    Andrew Bragg @AndrewBragg5555 Replying to @crotchner2 Follow At school performances I'll often be the only adult present, clapping, smiling, and enjoying, while every other adult is holding up their phone. It's quite sad.
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    Jeniceri @Jenicerri - 1d Replying to @crotchner2 Do we really need to make everything an issue? Is everything really this alarming? Words like dystopian are losing their meaning.
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    André Marcel Har... @andreharris89 Follow Replying to @crotchner2 How is this different from when I was born in the 80s getting Polaroids and disposable cameras shoved in my face to capture every single moment I farted? lol
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    Jonathan Cook @jonnywonny. 1d Replying to @crotchner2 But they're not looking solely through their phone they are just glancing at their screens to ensure they have a good shot.
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    Gift of God @Relobs 1d Replying to @crotchner2 People take all of these videos and probably never re watch them ●
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    Jasmine Yeager Nov... @Texastargirl Hot take but there is literally nothing wrong with this and I'm tired of y'all acting like there is. If this was the 90s and instead of a phone they had camcorders and dispo cameras nobody This is the EXACT SAME would say ● Follow i THING.
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    (he/they) @notcishet - 19h the doc im working on rn is literally about how we have humiliated ourselves into believing that authentic memories cannot be captured on a phone n that these people must be performing for someone else when all they're doing is archiving moments THEY want to remember
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    Lakyn Thee Stylist @OgLakyn. 12h Anyway, take it from someone who quite literally has zero pictures from my childhood or of my family in my possession: this baby is so lucky that there's going to be so much documentation of their earliest moments.
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    Squide @Squideeboi - 13h I regret being brainwashed to thinking that regular documentation of important life events is bad, because now I regret not taking more pics of people and events
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    Cora Harrington @lingerie_addict Follow Sometimes people like to look back at important moments and reminiscence. Memories are faulty and fickle and fallible. People die. A video lets you relive that exact moment again and again. That's why people take videos like this. Also, if this is your dystopia, you're blessed.
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    chloe Follow @chloeikennedy i've been thinking about this discourse all day and my main take away is that social media & surveillance has warped everyone's sense of reality bc neither side of the argument mentions the fact that we are watching this through a camera propped up by, most likely, the mother or father, but they are excluded from this argument because we all have been conditioned into thinking that the perception a video is filmed are our own eyes.
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    (sab) Their Tot... @sasponella ● Follow Unpopular opinion but if you live in an age where you can easily and accurately document important memories and then save them to share for maybe the rest of history, why wouldnt you want to do that?
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    Peach Saliva @PeachSaliva 16h A lot of new moms feel pressured to let God and everyone into the room directly after what is likely one of the more traumatizing and/or exhausting events of their life, but the phones..? I'd have asked them to turn their around.
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    suspicious limewi... @rudapu_92 Follow I can tell none of you remember the 90s because we did this exact same thing with camcorders, and it's perfectly normal and fine. No one in the room cares. The mom doesn't care. The baby doesn't care. It's just you, someone who's chronically online and not even in the video.
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    Rasin @R451n. 16h god forbid 3 out of like 8 people take a video of the most amazing thing that has ever happened to someone they care about
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