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my second favorite photo and repurposed social app…a small group of long distance friends and i make our own yearly albums of photos and everytime we get a notification that “[friend] has added photos to 2024”, we flock to the album and immediately celebrate the drop with hearts & funny comments and marvel at each other’s comps and colors. it’s pure chaos and definitely not what the app was probably intended for, but it is one of my favorite phone notifications ever.
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i am guilty of being a serial documenter (aka too sentimental for my own good) and am honestly too self-conscious to dump everything with abandon on my instagram. here, i love scrolling through all my old photos and getting reminded of what i did each week, and there’s og social functions for the real, no-pressure homies. you can send postcards!! and make monthly / yearly recaps!! the most delightful social app to celebrate the passing of time.
Feb 7, 2024
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I still have the text thread of an ex-friend floating around in my messages simply because it holds photos that I don’t have directly in my photos app. I didn’t want to lose them, so instead, I changed the contact to reflect its new purpose as a photo gallery. Now, it simply serves as a time capsule of fun photos to look back on.
Mar 17, 2025
we called this one “let me in”. it makes for a fun activity when you’re going out. i wish i could attach more than one picture per post.
Mar 8, 2024
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an occasional part of my pre-bed routine from 2023—requires time investment……but make the ai work for you!!
Feb 8, 2024
used the five metal shop one last year but it seemed a little too precious and i never ended up ripping any of the pages. got this one for 4$ in chinatown and it's a fun morning ritual. i use the torn pages for random notes each day, and thinking i'll give my friends the ones of their bday. maybe i'll finally learn the lunar calendar this year!
Feb 7, 2024
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i met some of my now dearest friends during 2020 in a leftist asian american podcast discord server while we listened to our own diy radio and had book club and thought too hard about things. it is one of the best things that’s happened in my life. also just a very great origin story to recount irl.
Feb 8, 2024