“The red, welcoming sun rises over the mountains, birds flocking over the scenic view.” What emotions do you feel when you picture this? Would you rather watch this happen or take a picture of it to keep, even if that meant not getting to feel all of the same emotions you would feel without the picture?

According to CNN.com, taking pictures during an eventful moment can actually reduce your memory of that moment. When scientists did an experiment with two groups of 20 people of all different ages and took then to a museum, they had one group of 20 people take pictures of everything they saw and take one minute too only look at the artifacts. With the second group they had them only look at the artifacts without taking any photos.

Two days later when both groups returned to take a quiz about what they had learned a few days before. First the group who took photos came to take the test, then the group who only looked at the artifacts without taking any pictures. When the results came back, it was shown that as a group, the participants that did not take any photos remembered the artifacts and what they looked like more clearly.

Could it be that taking photos actually can destroy certain memories of situations? I guess if you think about it for a minute it kind of makes sense. You are relying on your camera when you take photos, to remember what the photo is of, and you don’t need to pay 100% attention because you can always look back at the photo at a later time.

This article I feel did not really have a bias, but told the reader directly about the consequences, even though it was not encouraging the reader to never take pictures either, therefor there really was no bias.