They say, I say
Kaitlyn Logan
Period 6
April 18, 2017
They Say, I Say
People won’t really give scrapbooking a chance anymore in this day and age, because everybody and their grandma has a cellphone that takes pictures. They feel that they don’t need a scrapbook because they can keep all the photos they need on their phone or social media. Scrapbooking isn’t really a need for anybody because of phones and social media. The need for a hard copy photo isn’t there. Since saving pictures to an online website has become a thing, flipping through a photo album has kind of died out, nobody wants something that they might look through two or three times a year or every two years to be taking up space that they might need.
The author of the blog “A beautiful mess” had an article called “10 reasons to give scrapbooking a chance”. One of her reasons was that “Your photos deserve a real life home (and your phone doesn’t count”. She goes on to explain how she has an old phone that she has many memorable photos that she has been meaning to go and print, but she hasn’t because she says she’s been lazy about it. “Scrapbooking makes a home for these memories. It motivates me to get organized. And as soon as I begin, I am SO thankful when I see dozens of wonderful memories that would’ve been forgotten.” This is a few sentences that she has in her reasoning number one, and she is supporting why the photos you take should be given a home and not kept in a phone. “Your photos deserve an album. One that sits on your shelf for your kiddos and your grandkids to look at.” She says this because you can’t really keep photos on a phone forever, whereas with a photo album or a scrapbook you can keep that for as long as it lasts.
I don’t believe that scrapbooks should be a thing of the past, because there are so many important memories that need to be documented and having them on just social media or your phone isn’t documenting it. You never know when your phone is just going to randomly break on you and you won’t be able to get those precious memories that you had saved on your phone. Being able to hold an actual picture of something that means the world to you is so much more satisfying than just holding a cell phone with the picture on it. Having the ability to put that hard copy photo anywhere you want or do anything your heart desires with it, is much more meaningful than a photo behind a screen. This is because you don’t have that true physical contact with that picture. Yes you can go back at any time and look at the picture, but just imagine waking up in your room filled with pictures that mean the world to you and you actually spent the time to go get them printed. Imagine opening a photo album or scrapbook 20 years from now with your grandkids and you are showing them what high school was like when you were in it, or how much fun you had on the warm summer nights with your friends. Having the hard copy photo is so much more meaningful than a picture behind a glass screen.
