Amateur Wedding Paparazzi
What’s the deal with guests snapping cell-phone photos at weddings and posting them online?
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at 3:50 PM
This week, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it socially acceptable to take out your cell phone and snap photos of a wedding ceremony in progress, then post the shots to Facebook before the ink on the marriage certificate is dry?
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
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