There are so many networks out there where you can find people. Providing they belong to that network too. Which often isn't the case! But all is not lost! You can still track down people and find out where they are on the web using Peek You's free people finder. I've just given it a try and immediately located several old names from my past. worked a treat in fact!
Social Networking comes in many flavours and gets a rather mixed press. Blogging is one variant - narcissistic say some! Nonsense, says I! I love blogging and have many new friends for it. Facebook is also another I'm a big fan of. It gets groans and big thumbs down from many people, but I've 're-connected' with lots of old buddies. But one of my favourite social scenes is Flickr, the photo sharing site.
One complaint a lot of the doomsayers and miserable old gits come out with is that these social networks have too many people stuck for too many hours behind computer screens and getting out of touch with the real world, even to the point of losing their social skills. Which would be ironic.
There is truth in that, I guess, to a certain degree for a small number of people. But it doesn't have to be that way. With Flickr for example, you can join a Photo Walking club and meet your online friends. But the best story I've heard yet, and proof if ever you needed it that social networking can be a technological wonder, is this story..
The world has gone all digital, and largely that is thanks to the wonders of the World Wide Web. Most people use the web, but a growing number of us do more than that. We participate. We are adding the content that makes the internet such a place of wonder. Whether you contribute to forums with your thoughts, or are wholly more pro active and are uploading your own original content, you have become part of the web.
Blogging platforms and photo sharing sites can be great tools, but they really fall short in several areas. If you want your web presence to really stand out as unique, original, and most importantly as you, if you want to be your own censor, if you want full and unihibited control over your site, then you need to host it yourself.
It doesn't need to be expensive or even complicated, providing you start your search for the best web host provider with a little information about what is out there, what to avoid, and who have the best current offers. Which is why I highly recommend having a good look at a web hosting rating site first, and checking out some of the articles which will help you quickly acquaint yourself with the world of web hosting.
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I've come across another interesting photography article concerning the current paranoia in the UK afflicting photographers. It's a longish article but it kept my attention to the end, which is pretty rare.
Some of the opinions stated are ones I can't quite agree with. For example, blowing up a silly incident where a member of the public takes umbrage at having a camera pointed at them. Personally, whether it's lawful or not, it is polite to ask. Some people just don't like being photographed and I really think it's a little rude to snap away against their wishes. That includes famous people who are not at the centre of any story of public interest other than for being famous.
I also can't quite get upset about photographers being asked not to shoot inside stations or malls that are private, not public, property. Sure, it might be a bit of a tight and mean policy of theirs, but it's their property.
What really gets me is when police officers and trained security guards interfere with photographers who are shooting in public places. Isn't it time that the UK's police forces trained their officers properly? I found this except shocking...
Last November, Phil Smith, 50, went to see the Christmas lights switched on in Ipswich Town Square. Keen to get a snap of Letitia Dean, the EastEnders actress who was scheduled to perform the ceremonial duties, he began to take preliminary shots of the stage. Almost immediately, he was approached by a police officer ordering him to stop. 'I asked her why and she said it was because I was taking pictures of the crowd,' he says.
'I offered to show her the monitor on the back of my camera to prove I wasn't up to anything. Then she demanded to see a licence. That was a new one on me!' Soon, another PC arrived on the scene and asked him to step out of the crowd. He was led through a set of barriers and along the front of the crowd, flanked by the officers. 'I felt a bit daunted by this stage,' says Smith. 'I had friends in the crowd and I kept wondering what they must have thought.' He was led down an alley where the officers demanded to see his photographs.
'I was dumfounded, scared,' he recalls. 'I offered to delete the photos which, I now realise, I needn't have done. But I just wanted them to leave me alone.' Eventually, he was told to put his camera equipment in his car; but he decided to go home. 'I just felt embarrassed and didn't want to be there anymore. Everyone had seen me being led away by the police and I thought they were judging me. People are quick to jump to conclusions.'
Asking to see a license? Who trains these people? Personally I would welcome a confrontation like that. I do know my rights, and...well...I sometimes like that sort of confrontation! I would insist the officer arrest me and take it from there. I would want more than an apology. I would proceed with legal action to make sure I got what I wanted.
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