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A counter perspective I guess: As a person who doesn't take photos or appear in photos (I think there are fewer than ten photos of me in existence, at various ages), I've sometimes thought about how devastating it would be to my sense of self if I lose my memory when I get older and don't have any sort of artifact (like a photo) I can use to bring any of it back.
I still don't take pictures though, it's just not a habit I've formed.
Same probably a dozen photos that I'm not just in the background of, I just forget stuff and sometimes something else reminds me. I think it reconnects a lot of other neural pathways sometimes, I don't know how it is looking at old photos all the time to compare.