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I'm curious -- why do you want to record the moment?

That's a ridiculous question. $10k says you don't have kids.

I have 3. 15, 14, and 7. I'd give anything to have more of their precious moments saved so that I could reminisce and stroll through those periods once more.

Why does it matter if I have kids or not? Everyone has friends and family. The question remains.

Friends and family is 100x different. It’s impossible to explain unless you are a parent.

Could you not give it a try? Others often try to understand the experience of others. It is the basis of empathy.

When a man and a woman love each other very much, they exchange legally binding jewelry and then rub their bodies together until a baby comes out.

Gay folks can do it too but the process is more complex.

To preserve it.

That is like asking why anyone wants to record anything. Why make home movies? Why take a picture? Why write down a thought?

Yah but the entire point of Snapchat was to discard those moments...

Was. Not anymore.

You cannot preserve a moment nor a feeling. If you value your memories based on a audiovisual capture of events you are missing out on actual feelings of remembrance.

Huh? That doesn't even make sense.

Some people are more forgetful. Regretfully, I fall into that category. If I haven't written about a thing or captured its audio or video in some way, there's little chance I'll remember it after a year.

Those memories have no intrinsic value, but they are very precious. Being able to revisit them A/V is invaluable.

True! I think A/V can also help remember or trigger the memory feelings.

why do you think this?

Aren't you just begging the question here? Personally I don't see why people take pictures of a lot of things. As for preservation -- if you remember it, is it not preserved? And if you somehow forget, could you not forget that you recorded it?

if you don't see the point of people taking pictures and videos of a lot of things in general, then why post it in a thread discussing a device in a product category made specifically for that? It's like saying that you don't see a point of music in a thread with people discussing a new Yamaha piano, and then you attribute that as a disadvantage of that piano.

Maybe he is too busy with work related thinking to enjoy the actual moment and want to save it, so it can be enjoyed properly at a later time.

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