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AskSN Parents: What do you do with your children’s photos and videos?

401 sats \ 20 comments \ @cryotosensei 30 Nov alter_native

I am currently holidaying in Tokyo with my family. Since my phone is on airplane mode most of the time, I’m utilising this opportunity to look through my photos and videos of my son, declutter the excess and curate the remaining into meaningful categories.

Now I know I may overshare certain aspects of my life - to the extent of doxxing my youthful good looks from my carefree era even. However, when it comes to my children, I guard their privacy fiercely. I have only uploaded one photo of my son on my Facebook - and that is because I wanted to draw attention to a new food stall my ex-colleagues had opened. When it comes to my daughter, I am even less forthcoming. When she was born, I announced her arrival by uploading a photo of the Japanese New Year feast and stating that her brother had just welcomed a sibling into his life. Cryptic, much?

My wife got me to download an app called FamilyAlbum. It’s managed by a Japanese company, and she uploads all her photos and videos of our kids compulsively onto it. The app enables her to share her documentation with her parents and sibling; perhaps that’s why she is so reliant on it. I might have placed too much trust in the hands of this Japanese company because I have followed her example and uploaded all my content.

FamilyAlbum uses our photos to compile an album once a month. Several times a year, I buy this album to take advantage of this fuss-free way of preserving memories. It’s not that expensive either. Maybe 30k sats for a hardcover book, including shipping fees.

Anyway, the point of this post isn’t to shill FamilyAlbum. As I look through my old photos, I realise that it’s hard for me to trim the fat. The rule of thumb is to keep one photo of my son for a particular occasion. But it’s hard to follow it because he might be posing with my wife in one photo and posing alone adorably in another, with his then-favourite toys in tow. I have steeled my heart and deleted some repetitive ones, but the going is slow.

Anyway, this endeavour made me wonder what other parents do with their offspring’s photos. Save them on your laptop or even thumbdrive? Give in to Google Drive or Dropbox? Pay for private storage with Bitcoin (is there even such a way)? Let me know when I’m still motivated to do something more with these photos and memories, lol

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53 sats \ 2 replies \ @Msd0457890 30 Nov

I understand you perfectly my friend @cryotosensei as parents many times we want to immortalize each memory of our little ones and sometimes it is difficult to go through a filter to see which ones are important or which ones are the most valuable, I understand you perfectly, I have had my gallery full of photos and I have not been able to delete them because I think that each photo has a moment, it has an essence which makes it impossible for me to delete it, I would recommend that you continue saving on a USB or trying to classify it as best as possible. I am very glad that you are enjoying your little ones and your family so much, remember that they will always be your children the most they will not be small forever and that is why we idolize every second of their existence, keep it up.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

I think you expressed my sentiments so well!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 30 Nov

You have also written about my situation, I have identified a lot with you.

90 sats \ 3 replies \ @DesertDave 30 Nov

I used to use Google photos. Now I have my own prizm server on a pi with casa os. Maybe not as secure, but I don't want to rely on cloud storage anymore. I also have another hard drive I keep as a backup. Maybe burning them to DVDs would be a good solution that is quite resilient. Old school, I know.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

Honestly, sometimes old school ways are the best. I hated it when Lenovo discontinued installing DVD players on their laptops. It made storage more inconvenient.

I need to check out Prizm Server

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave 30 Nov

https://www.photoprism.app/

I had the spelling wrong.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

Thanks for the heads-up!

48 sats \ 2 replies \ @BeeAye 30 Nov

i use nextcloud with my start9 server, photos are automatically downloaded from my phone onto the server when i plug my phone in to charge... and as a backup i take the photo album once a year and upload it to proton drive, which storage can be bought using bitcoin without kyc. for sharing photos i have a group chat in signal with invited friends and family which restricts adding messages / photos to the admins ( me and my wife), and all other members of group can just view the photos.

48 sats \ 1 reply \ @BeeAye 30 Nov

i backup my start9 server on an external hard drive more often than once a year, the additional backup to private cloud storage i do annually.

65 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

Thank for sharing your very rigorous process!

48 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 30 Nov

I routinely go through old photos to get rid of duplicates. If I have 4 pictures of the same thing I will keep the 1 or 2 best ones and get rid of the others.

In terms of the kids privacy. I don't post pics of my kids faces. My wife has posted a few pics of our son and daughter on facebook but only for friends and family to view.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

I think I need to be as disciplined as you in reviewing my photos lol

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 30 Nov

I refuse to pay for extra storage when I can store like a thousand pictures on my phone.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

True that. Sats must be meaningfully spent

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 30 Nov

Once or twice a year I put them on a HDD. Some of the good photos I leave on my phone.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gregtonoski 30 Nov

Same here. Also, I copy to another storage as backup.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

Sounds like a good annual routine

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 30 Nov

For the photos we make an album for each kid. From the digital pictures we make books every year or two. You can see them any time if they are in a book and share them easily. Otherwise, we keep the photos and videos on DVDs, so as not to clog up our devices or hard drives.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 30 Nov

I don’t even know how to burn photos onto a DVD these days. How do you do it?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 30 Nov

I transfer them from the device to my hard drive. If you cannot get a direct USB connection, Google Photos or some such works great. Once they are on my hard drive I put a dvd into my dvd burner and use one of the programs available to burn DVDs. I load the dvd full to capacity and let ‘r rip. You can connect a dvd burner to a machine via USB cable if you do not have on on your machine. Sorry, I always use my desktop machine for almost everything.