[Leica] Flickr followers

[Marc Dufour]

The example Douglas quotes is extremely illustrative. One end, no doubt. 
I think that not participate at all in social medias would be the other extreme. 
In any case, this group is a social network too... or not?

A friend of mines, pro photographer with whom I have worked on several occasions, published yesterday in a social media some
wonderful photos, taken on the way with his mobile phone. 
And, let's be honest, we all have seen lots of vapid pictures taken with Leica gear...

Returning to social media, if a follower has 100.000 "followed", it's his business, not the mine. 
But if somebody follows my work on various social medias and, in addition, comes periodically to visit my LUG folder, I understand
that really appreciates my photos.

Have a nice day and take fine pictures,
Marc


-----Mensaje original-----
De: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+foto=marcdufour.net at leica-users.org] En nombre de Douglas Barry
Enviado el: viernes, 21 de agosto de 2015 2:28
Para: lug at leica-users.org
Asunto: [Leica] Flickr followers

I mentioned the Flickr follower problem before. I'm still getting a number of new followers for my little used Flickr a/c - some are
fine, but some are like this guy - followers of hundreds of thousands. As some others here also use Flickr, this is my somewhat
petty riposte to him and others by way of a Flickr testamonial. Flickr doesn't seem to have an adequate complaints procedure that
will handle individuals that are seemingly wasting others' time in their drive to get their own numbers up.

You said this about Name Deleted:
"You have to admire this photographer's dedication, resources, and chutzpah.
He has added my work to the other 154,860 photographers he is following. I'm so thrilled that he obviously spends all of his time so
devoted to the art of photography, and regularly checks 154,861 photographers' work. As many of these multiple thousands of
photographers post several images a day, he must have to look at several hundred thousand images a week at a minimum. That's real
dedication.

How long do most individual images get vetted for? Probably 10 to 20 seconds, longer if one wants to appreciate the nuances, and
context of the image and the photographer. How long is that? It's almost immeasurable to people of my limited mathematical
abilities. What a guy! What a life of dedication. There should be some sort of award for this. I nominate him for the Flickr
Faithful Follower Award. If there is no such award, I think there should be. Did I look at his own pictures? No, sadly. I didn't
have the time, and I rather suspect he doesn't have the time to take good images, as he seems to dedicate his life to other people's
images."

I know this won't affect many people here, but it's irritating that a site that I pay money to, allows its customers to be plagued
by people like this.

Aren't we lucky that we all have Brian Reid!!

Douglas