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Facebook fizog photo frenzy

2/19/2016

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On Wednesday I spent about ten seconds updating my Facebook profile picture and cover/banner image. I made the amends for two reasons, one was to replace the dodgy moustachioed Movember shot from 2014 and the second was to align the imagery on my website, Facebook and Twitter environments.

I don’t upload photos very often; in fact 75% of the photos that are on my Facebook (FB) profile weren’t uploaded by me (and some of them I don’t even like). In making the updates, it hadn’t occurred to me that the new pictures would be shared with all my FB friends.

But they duly were and 24 likes and 16 comments/replies later I remain bemused enough to write this post.

By way of background, I primarily use Facebook (and Twitter for that matter) to act as a signpost to my website. When it comes to FB, I’ll often go days between visits and when I drop in, I tend not to spend more than a few minutes on the site at any time.

Instead of writing on FB, I create articles for www.adrianbaldwin.net. I have always been of the opinion that if I am going to request the time of my readers, I should write posts that are engaging, or humorous, or thought provoking in some way. I am always looking for an angle; I’ll find ways to link seemingly disparate topics together; I’ll present a personal take on things etc. because I want to repay my readers for making the effort. The posts tend to be a reasonable length; some actually take me hours to write and they may be crafted over three or four sittings.

I make the points above because all I did on Wednesday was add a photo - it required no thought and little effort.

The image uploaded was only selected because it shows me, pen in hand, engaging in dialogue and ready to write.

It was/is kind of appropriate. The picture is okay but nicer ones are out there. 

Bizarrely the photo prompted more interaction with my FB buddies than the majority of the website posts I have published over the last four and a half years. I am obviously missing a trick!

Is this experience symptomatic of a social preference for instant, light touch communication over that requiring any investment of time?

Is Adrianbaldwin.net a bit old fashioned? A traditional newspaper in a world of iPads? A conversation in a world of soundbites?

​Am I trying too hard? Maybe I need to do less writing and organise more photographs of myself instead?

Or maybe not because that would be narcissistic and boring.

​I will trail this post on FB - I wonder how many ‘likes’ or ‘comments’ I get?  

I bet the feedback will be disappointing in comparison.

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