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I was never much into Facebook or any other such sites but the two galleries I work with said it's necessary in the arts game to get as much attention as possible as it puts your name out there and you link your page in with the galleries etc ,etc , .
The problem is there are an awful lot of truly deranged people who use FB and other such sites in the last week a pensioner who 'friended ' me last year attempted to scam me in a government bonds scheme , yesterday a women in Australia after agreeing to buy a painting deleted her account and disappeared , there seems to be one or two similar incidents every month ....
I wonder what people get from such behaviour and why they do it ?
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Yes of course we are FB friends Sylvia although I don't believe that we have corresponded as yet, but perhaps in time... Of course there will be good points to it and I'm pleased that it has helped you during your long period of immobility, very useful no doubt.
As long as we are all aware that there are scammers everywhere and not just on FB, all trying to pull a fast one and relieve us of our money.
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I'm not going to get into the Trump/Blair/Thatcher controversies - not here, anyway. But Facebook and Twitter...... I've just stopped using the latter; there are seriously peculiar people haunting it, and it also seems to be such a footling waste of time. The former - well; I keep promising myself to just walk away, but Dermot's advisers are quite right, it does help to get your name out there, as does LinkedIn, if you've the patience to deal with some of very odd people who talk art there (one of them specializes in something called Leetspeak, if you've ever heard of that: if you haven't, think yourself lucky. I lost all patience with her a while ago, and for once I did rather let rip - told her she was perfectly capable of writing in English and I for one would be grateful if she would. Silly ***.).
The good thing about FB is that I have got to see paintings there that you won't find even on POL - many from the USA, where I think some of the best work is coming from now (Trump or no Trump) especially in oil; and some fine work from Russia. I also follow Pratim Das on FB - he shows here too, of course, but there's more on FB. The snag with it is as has been mentioned - the weirdness, the scams, and in my case (and others, I understand) the number of Friend requests from obviously rather desperate young women who seem to labour under the entirely mistaken impression that because I was once a company chairman, I might be a good financial catch. If only that were so ....
I will probably stay with it, but obviously - unless you know someone, or they have a number of mutual friends, don't accept random Friend requests; never send anyone any money; and be very careful about anyone who expresses an interest in your work - of which we all need to be careful anyway; I've received far more scam e-mails than I've had dodgy requests on Facebook, though - not just the "you're invited to appear in our art book" (if you pay us a fat fee) approach, but also those who want to pay you for your goods in highly elaborate and unorthodox ways: I've yet to hear any good reason why people can't use Paypal, and I've never been convinced by the often strangely worded suggestions that it's vital they pay me only via Western Union or send me a personal cheque - if you do the latter, you'll wait a long time before you see the goods because I'll wait for the payment to clear. In fact I don't think I'd accept a cheque now, because they can be cancelled months after being issued.
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I'm not a member of Facebook or twitter for the simple reason that I haven't got time in the day to look or photograph what I'm having for lunch or such nonsense. Any spare time I have is spent painting. After hearing so many bad stories from members of these social groups I would not put personal information out there at all. How sad lives these people must have to spend half their life telling and showing the world what they had for dinner, criticising others, etc., etc. I've finished my rant so I'll stop now!
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In the old days my FB was plagued by friend requests from pneumatic young fillies from the eastern block...fun but irritating!
Then my art images and my food images were plagiarized...serious threats from me re those infringements of my intellectual property followed and backed up by Facebook...the trauma was too much and I left FB.
I rejoin Facebook and my page was populated by 50+ adverts per day [despite using every available advert blocking tool]...on the basis of being a UK resident over 18 & male...I left Facebook for good.
Linked in & Twitter? I failed to see their use to me.
G+ ?? has it died?
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I don't know if G+ has died - my interest in it has! I just didn't get what it was trying to do - I had one contact there with whom I keep in touch, or more usually he with me.
You can live without all of this stuff, as we all did once. FB has its uses; LinkedIn - well, I've never really given it a fair crack of the whip: before damning it, I must do that. I can do without pictures of other people's dinner, the approaches from young women whose keenest desire is to attach themselves to my bank balance (oh if only they knew...), and demonstrably fake news: FB has a particular problem with that right now, and if they don't correct it I WILL be off. But I should miss all the paintings I get to see; and if you want those, then you Like artists' pages - you could also search them out and subscribe to their websites or blogs (which reminds me: I took this off my posts, but the website is http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net, and the blog, which too many of you are wickedly avoiding to your eternal shame, is http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk) but imagine the faff of having to do that all the time, even if you'd heard of all the artists out there which of course you won't have done.
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