I have mentioned before that I did quite a bit of research into the Great Mickey Adventure using YouTube and it has been very helpful. I did also warn of the danger of going over the top with watching videos to extent the adventure is lost as you have seen it all before (without the experience). Today I was on YouTube and there were pages and pages of suggested videos all dedicated to Disney. There are lots of My Disney Holiday or vlogs, there were review of everything you could imagine, there were lists of best, worst or just lists, walk throughs, what to pack, top tips, Disney history, Disney news and it just goes on and on. It was endless. There was a video on how much it would cost to stay at Disney for a year (unsurprisingly it's a lot). There were videos on how to get kicked out of Disney, but given the cost of entry why would you even try? One video seemed to suggest that the participants were trying to get locked in one of the parks for the night - again Why? Some video were little more than mobile phone footage (without the use of a selfie-stick as they are banned from the parks) with little or no editing, whereas others have a high production effort.
At the end of all this I have come to the conclusion that you can get too much of a good thing. People have posted these videos with the best of intention, but there is a real danger that a holiday could be completely spoiled as it is no longer journey of discovery.
Are we in danger of doing the same with blogs? If the aim is to encourage and help fellow travellers then all well and good, but we don't want to provide experience by proxy.
I am keen to create a video record of our holidays, but I don't let it interfere with the holiday. I edit the footage to give flavour of our experience and this has a limited to release to members of my immediate family only. I want these to be a record for our children for when they are older and childhood memories start to fade.
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