Analog VS Digital

Photography has developed into something bigger than the sum of it's parts. I was at a high school graduation and was amazed by all the relatives taking pictures of the graduates with cell phones. Is this photography? I guess the definition is relative to what your motives and needs are. I look at concerts and see flash photography going off and I laugh because I know that the photos aren't going to show anything beyond about 12 feet from the camera. Do the people taking the pictures know this or do they care?