Thanks to digital cameras and Facebook, a generation documents itself like never

September 11, 2008 By Eric Adler

On a recent Saturday, 25-year-old Ramsey Mohsen of Fairway, Kan., did something at his parents' lake house that tens of millions of computer-savvy young people are doing more and more. He took a picture.

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