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Travelmail Reporter
09:34 EST, 11 March 2013
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09:34 EST, 11 March 2013
Digital cameras and smartphones have made it easy to chronicle our every move on holiday but do your carefully captured photographs ever actually see the light of day?
Snap-happy holidaymakers take on average 300 pictures on a week-long trip abroad, but nearly all of them stay locked in the digital world, according to a new survey.
In the frame: Holidaymakers take 300 pictures on a week-long trip abroad
Respondents said that their images were taken using a camera, mobile phone or another gadget.
But only 10 per cent of the images were deemed satisfactory enough to be shared on social media sites and 97 per cent of holidaymakers never print images in order to display them in photo frames or albums.
Instead, 79 per cent of respondents said the images would most likely stay on the devices they were taken
on or in the digital world in general.
Of those prepared to show off their camera skills, most preferred to upload their images to social media sites, with 82 per cent choosing to display them on Facebook.
A total of 2,162 people over the age of 18 took part in the poll by travel agent sunshine.co.uk, each of whom had been on a week-long holiday abroad in the last year.
Popular choice: The traditional slide show has been ditched in favour of Facebook as the most popular way of showing off holiday images
Sunshine.co.uk founder Chris Clarkson said: ‘Holiday photos are a great way to
capture the memories of your trip abroad, as it’s not long after you
return home that you tend to forget you’ve been altogether when the
stresses of everyday life kick back in.
‘I think it’s such a shame that more people don’t print their holiday photos.
‘Too often now, photos end up stuck on computers or social media profiles and that’s the only place they exist, but people really should make more of an effort to print images and enjoy them.’
April Madden, editor of Digital Photographer maga ine added: ‘Most holiday snaps seem to stay on people’s phones or cameras – they get emailed to friends and family and occasionally make it onto social media, but rarely into the kind of family photo album that most of us remember growing up with.
‘At the moment, the cost of printer ink and photo paper is prohibitive for most families on a budget.
‘It’s not all bad though – many households now have games consoles or tablet computers connected to their home network, which means it’s easier to show off photos in the living room via the TV… just like the holiday-snaps slideshows of yesteryear.’
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