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Spend money (waste fuel, and worse: waste precious time) to go to touristic places so they can take the exact same picture/video everyone else has taken, and share it on the exact same social networks everyone else has done. Why not just buy a postcard or repost a photo already shared. Why not, you know, look around and suddenly realize there are many other things worth looking at... things that may not even be that remote from where they live.
For me, that's one of the most extreme demonstration of generalized craziness, if not worse. Or maybe it's just me who's crazy (or worse)?
Edit: added a missing word.
The point of a photo is to remember something you did. Not generally the photo itself.
Resharing someone else's photo is not even similar to going somewhere and capturing the moment.
When you're old those photos might be all you have left.
Why then share it? I don't share the (very few) photos I take.
I should have added a '\s' to my sentence ;)
Sure, memories are priceless and they may differ for everyone. I mean, I'm old(er) and I much prefer words to images myself (I've been journaling for almost 50 years). Also, I don't care to remember seing the Eiffel Tower (even less so since I live in Paris, which is a privileged place to observe tourists), or NY, or Bangkok, or any other place in particular. I wish to remember people.
Note that I simply answered the OP question (what is the craziest thing you have seen a tourist do). I may be wrong, like I hinted to in my previous comment, but to this still is the most mind boggling stupid thing I can see people do over and over again every singled day... the moment I pass in one of those few Parisian streets full of tourists ;)
Have you never traveled anywhere, and taken a picture while you were there? I bet you have. We’re all tourists sometimes, even if you’re usually the cool one who lives in the cool place Paris that other people go to, at some time somewhere you were a tourist too.