So you think facebook sucks!

Hey if Keith likes it I better give it a second look LOL

I have a page but never have done anything with it.

the ire it draws I find interesting, probably a reflection of it's popularity.

Like cell phone cameras, LOL
 
re fb:
I have this one jerk who keeps following me and telling me how great my stuff is -- he goes by the name of michael markey....:p:p:p:p:p:p :bang::bang::bang::bang::bang:

other than that, fb is ok....
 
i like FB…made a few sales and got a few photo jobs from it…great way to get your images out there.
last week i posted a pic here on rff, FB and flickr…i got one comment on rff, quite a few on Fb and almost 12,000 hits on flickr…

hard to hate social media...
 
I'm on Facebook because I have to be - I was off for almost a year. Facebook's stance on their rights to your images was one reason I got off. It is draconian even compared to Google.

For professionals and organizations, Facebook is not as good as it used to be for free advertising. Early on if someone "liked" you they would get all of your updates which was great. Things changed a while back so that if you want more than a minuscule percentage of those people to get your updates regularly then you have to pay for it. As a user I found this really annoying. I liked things so I would get updates not so that I would have to go to each individual thing to see if there was a new update.

Rant, I know.
 
Keith said:
In some ways it does but I've just been asked to do some corporate portraits and photograph a woman and her two adult daughters. Both of these requests have come directly from what I've posted image wise at FB over the last year.

I know FB can be nauseating at times but as a method of getting your work viewed/noticed by people who may be interested in what you have to offer photographically it has certain advantages. It's not all puppies, kittens, lunch pics and inane videos! :D
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For business FB works well when you have a dedicated page where interested parties just join or follow you. That way you can keep business and personal material (selfies, puppies, meals eaten etc..) separate.

So, where's your business page?
 
The biggest problem with Facebook's metaphor is "friend or not friend". It is one dimensional. Facebook is trying to fix this by differentiating "friends", "close friends", etc. Google+ actually fixed this, but it never caught on.

The solution is that on your personal Facebook account, only accept actual friends -- I mean, actual friends.

For your business, set up a separate account to showcase and promote your work. It actually isn't that complicated.
 
I do not use Facebook or linked and/or many other social media outlets.

Just a personal choice.

Photography and a couple of other sites is about my limit for social media.
 
Facebook has been good to me. I've sold prints to people who "Liked" my Facebook page, and it has brought students to me for the personal photo lessons I teach.

Recently, though, Facebook has become much less useful. They changed it so that only a handful of those who "Like" a page actually receive updates from the page unless the page owner pays Facebook to show updates to those who have liked the page!
 
uhoh7 said:
Hey if Keith likes it I better give it a second look LOL

I have a page but never have done anything with it.

the ire it draws I find interesting, probably a reflection of it's popularity.

Like cell phone cameras, LOL
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Hey ... I never said I liked it! :D

But I do accept it for what it is and it has put me in touch with some people from my past of late who I may never have crossed paths with any other way.
 
Thardy said:
For business FB works well when you have a dedicated page where interested parties just join or follow you. That way you can keep business and personal material (selfies, puppies, meals eaten etc..) separate.

So, where's your business page?
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Not really interested in a business page as I work full time in a completely different field these days and really want nothing more than an occasional project or small job to keep me photographically amused.

I just thought it was intriguing that FB, without too much effort on my part, has managed to create sufficient interest in my photography that two people have asked if I can take photos for them. It has made me realise that if you really applied yourself you would likely get more of the same.
 
As an amusing aside .... a customer came into the shop the other day who has been noticing the amount of black and white images I post at FB.

"Black and white! You're a typical bloody New Zealander ... living in the past!" :p
 
Keith said:
As an amusing aside .... a customer came into the shop the other day who has been noticing the amount of black and white images I post at FB.

"Black and white! You're a typical bloody New Zealander ... living in the past!" :p
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Keith said:
I just thought it was intriguing that FB, without too much effort on my part, has managed to create sufficient interest in my photography that two people have asked if I can take photos for them. It has made me realise that if you really applied yourself you would likely get more of the same.
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Been my experience too but I always pass them on to others.
I`d pass them on to you but you only take BW :D
 
photomoof said:
I am sure you are right, but common sense would tell you not to allow outsiders to look at your facebook page, unless it is clean of ID theft info and travel plans.

Of course even your friends can rob you. :eek:
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... I feel a NRA moment coming up any second ;)
 
peterm1 said:
I use twitter. I use Flickr. I use other forms of social networking. But I do not use FB. I dislike it and its paradigm. It is clunky to use and most of the posts I am asked to view are just an exercise in personal ego by people I can only conclude are very shallow and self obsessed. So I do not use it. When I changed cities a few years back I did use it for a year or so purely to try to find some friends with whom I had lost contact. And to be fair it was kinda helpful for this. But eventually I got sick of hearing from people who wanted to tell me they had just had a nice meal or a good bowel movement or some such rubbish and abandoned it altogether. Although a few years later I found there is no such thing as abandoning FB. When you tell them to cancel your membership they actually keep all your details on their database just in case you can ever be induced to change your mind. Which is another reason to dislike it. If I want a divorce from FB I want a divorce from FB. I am not looking to keep my options open - especially when they are secretly keeping details against my wishes. Anyway that's just me. Others are welcome to feel differently.
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Personally I feel exactly the same, particularly when it comes to their data retention policy which can only be described as outrageous.

Yesterday evening I went out with some members of a poetry group who communicate entirely via FB. They were surprised that I didn't do the same for photography, which made me once more profoundly grateful for the existence of RFF.
 
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