I have a photo page on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/PhotobyJosephCiras. After being part of this project for almost three and a half years, I am getting less views and comments and am starting to loose inspiration. I am looking for followers on my page to get my photos viewed by more people. Stop by and like my page and I will stop by and like yours. You do not need to join Facebook to look at the photos on my page. I know this is shameless self promotion, but I need to keep getting inspired.
There have been other threads about Facebook pages so sorry for the repost.
I had to chuckle when I read your reason why you started a FB page. I started posting on 365 because my photos on FB weren't getting much attention. Have you thought of starting an account on Flickr or somewhere else? Supposedly FB thinks that they own your photos if you upload them there. That's what I was told when I started a similar post about a week ago asking what were the benefits of a FB page. I still post the occasional photo on FB, but most of my better ones go to Flickr. Cheers! :-)
@5unflow3r I heard that about Facebook too but I think if you embed copyright in to your photos you're ok. But someone on here might know if I've got it wrong! x
So I think what that all means is if you post on Facebook, while the pics are there then they might use them but if you delete your account then they can't claim them as theirs.x
Joe, I will try to stop by once and awhile. My vacation ends this week so my scheudle is about to go back to busy again, and I have been trying to cut back on my on-line time.
@cirasj@meiphotography@5unflow3r Facebook clearly states that as long as your photos are posted that you have sub-licensed the photos to them. And pay attention to this, if you tag a person or someone commented, the photo does not really disappear. Also there is a reasonable amount of time after you delete it that they still have rights, but reasonable is not defined.
This is one reason I stopped posting my good photos on facebook.
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@meiphotography If you delete your fb they keep it in case you ever want to go back. If you check your friends they keep the people who have de activated their accounts as your friends just in case........
I was Reluctant Facebooker for about 5 years on fb my daughter persuaded me to join when she went on a gap year and I got into it but because of my job I didn't want to be found on fb. I posted lots of photos and added people I met on holidays and then one day fb randomly deleted my account as I wasn't a real person even though there were pictures of me that had been tagged by me and other people. Several e mails later and that was it - I was n't a real person facebook takes this very seriously - deactivated end of and so many photos and contacts lost and gone forever!!!! I was SO cross!!!
I think when you upload any photos or privacy details to the internet you lose your right to anonymity simple rule if you don’t want it nicked don’t upload it
@brumbe Thanks for that! I'll proceed with caution!
@moirab Thats pretty awful! How did they prove you weren't a "real person"??
@donian Good point but how do you promote yourself without going online?? (Not a question directed at you really, more of a quandary I find myself mulling over a lot! :0) )
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@5unflow3r I heard that about Facebook too but I think if you embed copyright in to your photos you're ok. But someone on here might know if I've got it wrong! x
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=193430577370347
http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
This is one reason I stopped posting my good photos on facebook.
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For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
When you use an application, the application may ask for your permission to access your content and information as well as content and information that others have shared with you. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, including how you can control what information other people may share with applications, read our Data Use Policy and Platform Page.)
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@moirab Thats pretty awful! How did they prove you weren't a "real person"??
@donian Good point but how do you promote yourself without going online?? (Not a question directed at you really, more of a quandary I find myself mulling over a lot! :0) )