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Post by underwatermama on Dec 8, 2014 23:14:51 GMT
I was sorting our my kids school portraits for this year and realized that even though one of them is in high school, they've never exchanged photos with friends. Is this not done anymore? Or maybe only senior year? Or something else due to changes in technology since the dark ages when I went to high school?
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Post by littlemama on Dec 8, 2014 23:16:56 GMT
No, they really don't. I think it's because they all have phones and can take pics of themselves or friends whenever they want to. I hope they do exchange more as seniors- that's next year for us. I will have to ask some of my recent grad moms to see.
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Post by oliquig on Dec 8, 2014 23:17:09 GMT
I was sorting our my kids school portraits for this year and realized that even though one of them is in high school, they've never exchanged photos with friends. Is this not done anymore? Or maybe only senior year? Or something else due to changes in technology since the dark ages when I went to high school? I only ever did it senior year. I have no oar if it is still done among seniors.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 23:23:41 GMT
I bought extra photos last year for my DD's to exchange (they were in grades 4 and 7) and when the photos arrived they both looked at me like I was crazy! They said no one exchanges photos, they didn't even realize it had been a thing.
I think widespread use of technology, Facebook, phone photos and selphies has completely eliminated paper photo exchanging.
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Post by mimima on Dec 8, 2014 23:25:55 GMT
It didn't seem to be a thing with my kids either.
Also, flipping through one of my son's yearbooks, it didn't appear that signing your photo in the yearbook was a thing either. Who knew?
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Post by leannec on Dec 8, 2014 23:26:10 GMT
Nope, not done anymore ... I buy photos for us and for the Grandma's and that's it
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Post by littlemama on Dec 8, 2014 23:29:38 GMT
It didn't seem to be a thing with my kids either. Also, flipping through one of my son's yearbooks, it didn't appear that signing your photo in the yearbook was a thing either. Who knew? Our yearbooks are handed out in such a way that the kids can't get each other to sign them. In elementary school, they used to do it, not sure about now at that level, but in middle and high school there is no time. I think the seniors do it as a part of their senior walk/luncheon.
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Post by bc2ca on Dec 8, 2014 23:30:33 GMT
No, they really don't. I think it's because they all have phones and can take pics of themselves or friends whenever they want to. I hope they do exchange more as seniors- that's next year for us. I will have to ask some of my recent grad moms to see. DD and friends have never exchanged school photos and I don't see it happening Senior year around here. Instagram is the place load and share photos for her group. ETA DD's school distributes yearbooks last period on the last Friday of the year and they have a BBQ/dance afterschool so most stay to sign each other's books and hang out.
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Post by underwatermama on Dec 8, 2014 23:33:01 GMT
It didn't seem to be a thing with my kids either. Also, flipping through one of my son's yearbooks, it didn't appear that signing your photo in the yearbook was a thing either. Who knew? I figured this was just a "guy" thing since I have boys and they aren't into girls yet. Their yearbooks come home practically naked. And I agree, they don't get much time to sign them. Seems like we carried them around to classes for a few days to have time for everyone to sign them.
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Post by J u l e e on Dec 8, 2014 23:33:01 GMT
I just asked my daughter that. I gave her all the wallet sized photos for her to exchange with her friends and she didn't want to. That was the best part of school photos when I was in school!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Dec 9, 2014 0:44:22 GMT
My kids don't exchange with other kids either.
When I was a kid, we did. I still have my friends wallet pics in my school scrapbook.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Dec 9, 2014 0:48:58 GMT
We don't even buy extra school photos. I buy one 8x10 and one class pic for their scrapbooks. I take way better pictures of them on my own, so I don't waste much money on the school photos.
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Post by tduby1 on Dec 9, 2014 0:51:02 GMT
My kids weren't/aren't interested either. I thought it just that my kids were weird, lol. Not only did we exchange but we wrote sappy notes on the back, complete with codes and the year we were graduating.
"Becky, you are the bestest best friend ever. Thank you for being the bestest best friend, I hope we will always be bestest best friends. Stay crazy and awesome and sweet!!!!! B/F/F/A/E/A/A, Tduby C/O (a long time ago)."
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Dec 9, 2014 1:02:44 GMT
Kids stopped exchanging long before camera phones and social media took over. No one traded pictures when I started teaching in the early 90s. I can think of two reasons: today they are so expensive and the schools all do yearbooks so there is no need to trade.
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Post by cmpeter on Dec 9, 2014 1:03:48 GMT
My kids didn't exchange either and we quickly stopped buying the wallet prints.
I still have all the ones given to me when I was a kid. It was neat to be able to scan them and share on Facebook.
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Post by monicad on Dec 9, 2014 1:31:11 GMT
We just ordered ds' senior photos and I think we're going to end up with 500 wallet photos. I asked him about exchanging photos, but he hadn't heard of it. It was definitely a "think" back in my day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2014 1:46:31 GMT
I have over 10 ,000 photos of my own. I don't encourage photo exchanging since they all have Instagram.
Awhile back I went through all my loose photos and gave them to the people in the photos. Felt good to do that.
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Post by AussieMeg on Dec 9, 2014 1:48:21 GMT
My kids have never ever exchanged photos, and I never did as a child either. I always buy the big pack of photos because it's better value. The grandparents and aunties get copies, but that's all.
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Post by scrappinjen on Dec 9, 2014 1:51:59 GMT
Nope never-we don't sign yearbooks either. They are given out at the beginning of the following school year when you pick up your course schedule. Stopped buying wallets long ago-even Grandma keeps the photos I text her on her iPhone. Nothing in the wallet. My husband and I carry a photo of all the kids in our wallets, but it's one I take that has all 5 kids in it-no room for individuals
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Post by melanell on Dec 9, 2014 2:02:03 GMT
I asked my 6th grader if he wanted me to buy wallet sized pics for him to hand out and he looked at me like I grew an extra head. So I'm guessing the kids at his school don't exchange them anymore. With kids exchanging pics through their phones, on FB, Instagram, etc. all of the time, I guess they don't really need to hand out their (often a bit cheesy looking) school portraits.
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Post by jemali on Dec 9, 2014 19:07:52 GMT
Nope, my kids didn't exchange photos during elementary or middle school either. But they do exchange senior photos at the grad parties.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2014 19:51:23 GMT
My kids never asked for pictures to exchange. I suspect the days of large orders of wallets are disappearing.
I have a feeling that they won't hand out wallets of their senior pictures either unless there's a girlfriend in the picture who might want one or two for her locker/desk.
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Post by mallie on Dec 9, 2014 20:12:34 GMT
None of my kids ever exchanged pics.
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Post by amom23 on Dec 9, 2014 20:13:09 GMT
Here Lifetouch gives out a composite of the class with everyone's individual photo on a 8x10. That takes the place of all those little exchange photos.
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Post by calgal08 on Dec 9, 2014 20:23:05 GMT
never even heard of this before - so I guess my answer is - nope, they don't do it
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Post by blue tulip on Dec 9, 2014 20:28:28 GMT
I did it every year from elementary thru senior year. my boys, 9 and 7 now, have never done it. seems so weird to me, because at the younger ages, they don't have phones and facebook and such. I treasure those old pics when I see them in an album.
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Post by maryland on Dec 9, 2014 20:32:15 GMT
We always did it in high school, but kids in our area don't do it.
I have a sophomore, senior and 6th grader. My senior was telling me a lot of kids get professional "senior" pictures, not just the one at school for the yearbook. I asked why we would spend a few hundred dollars just to buy pictures that will sit in a drawer. If she wanted to exchange the expensive pictures with friends, we would think about it. But she won't.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Dec 9, 2014 20:39:43 GMT
My kids never have. My DD graduated HS last year and no, they didn't exchange photos either. She didn't even have any to exchange. That is a thing of the past. I still have mine from elementary through HS.
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Post by Dani-Mani on Dec 9, 2014 22:22:59 GMT
Kids stopped exchanging long before camera phones and social media took over. No one traded pictures when I started teaching in the early 90s. I can think of two reasons: today they are so expensive and the schools all do yearbooks so there is no need to trade. Not all schools do yearbooks. Most elementary schools I've worked in do not actually. And I defintely traded pictures in the early 90s.
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Post by iammikki on Dec 9, 2014 22:34:02 GMT
Apparently this isn't a thing at all anymore, which is kinda crazy to me, because I always had to get the extra wallets in school so my friends and I could exchange. My daughter is only in 1st grade but she has had 1 yearbook now and it came home signed by friends and teachers.
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