Taking photos

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How often do you take photographs? Like of your life's moments or the people that mean the most to you? I'm really conscious about the fact I barely take any photos of my life, yet there's a built in one in my phone with me everywhere. Even of my family, I hardly have any photos. And I barely have friends so of course I don't have the chance to take photos with them yet, but even if I did I would probably be inclined not to take any. And I'm not the one to take pics of myself.. And if my family want to take photos of me I choose not to be in it, like I'm distancing myself from any produced image of myself, its like I don't want anyone to know I exist. I guess I prefer remembering moments in my head as I have a good memory. But I feel really self conscious and insignificant as I don't post many photos of my life to my social media pages like nothing in my life's worth sharing.
Is this normal or maybe more an Aspie thing? (as I am) I'm asking because I'm thinking of trying dating, and you know what couples are like taking photos of themselves!

I love taking photographs. I'm no professional but I've always enjoyed landscape and nature photography in particular, and now that I have a daughter I take photos of her almost every day. I want to capture as many moments as possible in image form, because I don't trust my memory very much and I want to be able to look back and see how she was at the various stages of her life. I also like to photograph events, and I do come out of some worrying that I take too many photographs and miss the actual moments, but it's hard not to want to take pictures because it's a big hobby of mine. I am disappointed to not have fully immersed myself in a few concerts that I've been to recently, but I have some absolutely wonderful photographs to show for it and they do mean a lot to me. They're something unique - images of the things that I've seen and experienced, that nobody else has the exact same of.

I don't see it as what's worth sharing or not. I believe you should take photographs for your own personal benefit. A majority of mine do go onto social media, but I don't take them for other people. I take them so that I can look back on them and go 'I did this'. I just put them on social media in case others want to see them, too.