Complaint of the Day.

Why has it become the social "norm" to have a DSLR camera? It is completely pointless unless you have a clue about how to use it. I am sitting here at a college football game, and this woman in front of me has a Canon DSLR. Of course, I snooped... she was using it on Auto... the whole time. And her lens? Did even change the zoom once.
So I ask myself, "self? Why did she spend $700+ on a camera she is only going to use one setting of? She could have gotten a point-and-shoot for $100 to do the same thing that she's doing right now."
I see it at work all of the time. I am the go-to person for camera questions. How I got this task? I have no idea. But anyway, countless times, I've gone over to our camera display and people ask me to compare two or three cameras for them. It baffles me when people have me compare 2 point-and-shoots with a DSLR. In my opinion, if you need to ask the difference between a point-and-shoot and a DSLR, you don't deserve a DSLR. Maybe that's just me.
I make sure that I ask what they are going to be using it for. That's a big one. If you're just going to be snapping pictures to snap pictures, get a point-and-shoot...