[semi-extrinsic]

On the exact day when my daughter started first grade this year, Google Photos (which I use pretty often) notified me that it had made a new video montage. It started with a title slide saying "Look how fast they grow", and then showed photos and videos of her (not a single mistake with one of my other kids or any of her friends) growing up from ages 0 to 6, ending with the photo I had just taken of her in front of school. It was really nicely made, but it also freaked me out quite a bit how they not only detect "today is first day of school" and act on that, but also "this photo is of Kid Y, not Kid X" at all ages growing up.

[bilbo0s]

Imagine how much Google, Facebook, et al will know about your daughter when she finally turns 13 and can open an account.

Cradle to grave data collection!

[rbosinger]

I've had it make me around 3 if those already for my 2.5 year old. It's the same video but they just keep adding a few more months into it. I always save them. It's amazing, creepy and well done. I had a Premiere project where I was painstakingly trying to compile a similar thing and now I just gave up on that.

[ktsmith]

I have dozens of these videos now for my two kids and even one or two that are called "Dog days" or something like that with my dog featured instead of the kids. They are usually pretty good but every once in a while there's a blurry pic or they include a video instead of photos and there's some background motion that's distracting. They've gotten much better since they were first introduced.

[otachack]

I agree. It's just so convenient to use Google Photos as a backup and method of sharing albums that the threshold for leaving the service is super high, at least in my book.