Why people are going to back to printed photos

Have you ever tried to find an old photo you saved on your hard disk a few years back? Well, if you haven't, good luck. When you do find it, the odds are that you are going to open and then close it 30 seconds later, forget it for another few years.

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People crave something if they can touch it. Despite all the good things computers can do, physically touching something is almost impossible. After years of trying to save photos on a computer, most people simply crave to touch them physically, to hold them in their hands.

Sitting down in front of a computer is too complicated. Sitting down with a pile of pictures is special, you get to pass them back and forth, put aside ones you like, give them to the person you are with. With a computer, its to complicated. Handing a photo so someone to keep is much easier to than plugging in a flash drive and dragging them in. The person can hold on to the photo physically, while pressing a flash drive to ones chest is a little vague. On a computer you get a copy, but with a physical picture you have the only one.

Photo albums have work and effort put into them. You can take it, flip through it, show your friend next to you. But with a computer photo album, it just not the same. The computer does it for you, and you have to shift the entire computer to the person. A photo album is meant for saving pictures, a computer does way too many other things.

How about trying to find a picture? When you have physical pictures lying around in a pile, and your looking through them, you take the time to admire each one of them. On a computer, you might be looking between PDF and word document files, kind of takes away the essence of just looking through pictures. In a photo pile you know its somewhere in there, but with a computer, it can be anywhere. Most people just save their photos where ever.