John you should blog this somewhere, it is bound to open a couple of eyes here and there off list reply after my nap thank you Ecke
2011/1/14 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > From: Darren Addy >> >> I too am anti-Facebook, but not against social-media. >> Flickr is social media. YouTube is social media. Lots of things are >> social media or social media aware (letting others Tweet and post >> about it on their social media sites). >> I dislike it when Facebook is the only thing that = social media to some >> people. >> >> Sorta like how i hate the Photomatix-y "Dial it up to 11" look is >> called HDR by many today. > > Yeah, you're right. I'm not really anti-social media. I have Flickr & > YouTube and this mailing list. PDML is "social media" as far as I'm > concerned, and it's the "social media" I chose for myself. > > What bothered me: > 1. Facebook itself - I don't want it. I'm fine with anyone else who wants to > use it. But, I resent it when I'm told that I'm some kind of defective > because I don't have a Facebook account. > > I don't try to keep anyone else from using Facebook. Let them do what they > want to do. So why should anyone else try to force me to use Facebook if I > don't want it. > > Why can't I be allowed to do what I want to do? > > 2. More bothersome to me is that they weren't about using Facebook because > of the value of having relationships, but for how easily it could be > manipulated to use people. > > It's a marketing strategy based on deception. The presentations were all > about side-stepping Facebook's minimal controls so you could use your > "friends" pages to SPAM all of their "friends". The value of a Facebook > "friend" is all calculated in how many dollars can be extracted from them. > > And remember, what we're really talking about here is high school kids; how > to separate them from their money. It's not about providing value or > service, it's about scamming 'em out of their lunch money. > > 3: The amount of time you actually have to spend SPAMMING with Facebook to > stay competitive - 24/7/365. Never did get an answer to my question: When > does that leave time to actually be a photographer? > > As I've said before, I already spend too much unproductive time on the > computer with PDML - time I should be out taking photographs of *something*. > But PDML is something I value; something I want for itself; something that > I'm willing to give up some of my productive time because of what I get in > return. > > But PDML can't be valued with a dollar sign. According to these experts, I > can't *USE* PDML for personal monetary gain, so I shouldn't be here at all. > I should be over on Facebook squeezing every dime I can out of its users. > > That's a sociopathic value system that I just have to refuse. > > I can't take every aspect of my life and value it only according to how much > money I can squeeze out of it. If for no other reason than that eliminates > all the fun stuff and leaves only the drudgery. > > And sooner or later, I have to look at myself in the mirror, and I want to > be able to respect the man I see there. > > Just writing this has given me additional insight into why this stuff > bothered me so much. How many dollars is that worth? How do you place a > monetary value on self knowledge? ... on self respect? > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3379 - Release Date: 01/14/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
