Posting on Facebook...

[rpcrowe]

We have been having problems with sizing our images for Facebook until my wife came upon this article:

http://havecamerawilltravel.com/phot...mensions-types

[HaseebM]

What kind of sizing issues? I find I can upload almost any size.

[Shadowman]

Same here, they'll accept anything.

[IzzieK]

'Have no social media account but the boys have Facebook and I use theirs. I uploaded a video of the Buckaroo rescue and restoration once and it was stolen. Just knew about it when the guy confessed so we took it down. Never again.

[ajohnw]

I don't use it much but have had some photo's on there for rather a long time and they don't get accessed any more. When I do I feel that they have dropped in quality - probably more heavily compressed to a point where it shows. Not that they were that good really in the 1st place.

John
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[lukaswerth]

Since the topic came up...

I avoid Facebook and other such social media because, first, most of what you find there, and what people post about themselves, is irrelevant rubbish. This is all about what I never wanted to know even about my real friends (why should I be interested in someone else's breakfast table of bedroom view?), let alone those people who clicked the friend icon.

In a wider context, I would say we seem to enter an age in which information becomes a problem as much as something wishful, as it enters this intimate relation with surveillance. Facebook's beacon program (discarded, they say, but this is just one way...), face recognition, selling of data which is the way they make their BIG money are all about information collected and turned into monitoring and surveillance. A new form also of defining our identity: we prostitute ourselves, and just as other prostitutes, we get exploited.

In the first decade of the internet, it was all about freedom, freedom to communicate, to interact, to take part in the most exciting mass medium there was. Now it is all about surveillance, and the danger of being made string puppets by big and powerful companies.

Lukas

[Black Pearl]

On a flip side I use FaceBook every day to keep in touch with friends all over the world, see what they're up to, how they're doing, see they're photographs, here about things they've done or are going to do and I have to say I wouldn't be without it. I will add that I have a carefully selected friends list but that does mean my timeline is entertaining, fun and something I check several times a day.

FaceBook isn't the evil some would have you believe - for me it's part of my social life and one I thoroughly enjoy.

[lukaswerth]

Robin,

I guess most of my colleagues and friends would to a greater or lesser degree agree with you, and see and emphasize the advantages of social media (I get invitations to Facebook and linkedin and such like all the time). I am aware that I am pretty alone, or, at least, pretty extreme in my distrust and dislike.
On a general note, one wants to accept, make use of, and enjoy the world in which one lives, to use what is there, just as we do with the camera, but then again a critical perspective may also come useful once in a while...

Lukas

[Donald]

I was a very late adopter of social media and treat it cautiously. However, I have embraced Facebook and find it a powerful tool in terms of getting my images (and hence awareness about myself) out there. I have also to confess that the power of social media was really seen in the recent independence referendum that took place in Scotland. Many of us turned our back on the 'traditional' media (TV, Newspapers, etc) that we considered to be very biased in their reporting and relied instead on trusted social media resources.

[lukaswerth]

I was a very late adopter of social media and treat it cautiously. However, I have embraced Facebook and find it a powerful tool in terms of getting my images (and hence awareness about myself) out there. I have also to confess that the power of social media was really seen in the recent independence referendum that took place in Scotland. Many of us turned our back on the 'traditional' media (TV, Newspapers, etc) that we considered to be very biased in their reporting and relied instead on trusted social media resources.

Donald,

Just out of interest: do you care to tell whether you were for or against?

But with regard to Facebook: you are telling the story of freedom, the same narrative which informed the Arabian spring and the Tahir place in Egypt - how I wished that more would come from it! - and the story of how Obama got elected. My reply is: yes, these uses are very much there, but they get increasingly counterbalanced by concerns about, well, partly the very values which inform these uses: freedom of opinion, of informing yourself without bias: for instance, there have been efforts by Google and co. to select the news they show to their users according to what they are supposed to like, receive positively, because they are then also supposed to react more positively to those carefully selected commercials they are shown. If this gets common, we may find ourselves moving in information bubbles made from our own preferences and prejudices.

What I advocate is, I guess, at least a critical use of these media.

Lukas

[Donald]

Donald,

Just out of interest: do you care to tell whether you were for or against?

I am very proud to say that I am in favour of independence. We have lost this round but the dream lives on.

[lukaswerth]

Obviously, I am outside the situation and therefore am not really able to take sides, but I very much appreciate your position, and I think in this world there should be a possibility for people to choose how to live. All this talk about EU-membership and so on owed more to vested interests of politicians than anything else.

However, I do think also that Scots have a real chance now to push for more federalism.

Lukas