I have noted that recordings from long ago have value to me as I age, and I have seen that the young also value such recordings as a window into a world that used to be. I love old pictures of blacksmiths and wheelwrights plying their trades in their stout aprons that I would sometimes acquire of properties I purchased where that used to be the purpose of the property. Such historical context always provides a savor to ownership meaningful to me.
But I don't manually take a lot of pictures or videos myself. Sometimes I take pictures of instructions or recipes so that I can have them handy in action (because my phone can't contact the internet), or of jobs to do and the finished work, tricky steps in processes, and etc. I don't take any pics of me doing these things. I did one time, and posted a video on chain of me covering a 98" countertop with 96" of formica using magic, but that's really a one off. Only my hands appear in the video anyway. Future generations will just have to do without a total recall of my life in video and pictures, somehow.
I think for most people recording events signifies their investment in the event, that they value it highly, it's unusual, and perhaps for legal or other purposes, as I do. When I was actively parenting I was surprised to realize that I wasn't in the pictures I took of my family. In the same way my own father was rarely in photographs or videos of my childhood. Surveillance videos of us just don't have that same value nowadays, and only spooks keep them. All the surveillance videos my security system creates in which I appear get wiped after a month by new ones on the DVR. Hopefully there isn't one last one that ends up on America's Best Gore or something.
Thanks!
the ending took me for a surprise! lol