A storm brews..

I have come to hate social media so much I am tempted to remove the instagram symbol from this very page. What started as a foray into, here’s some pics I did, why not look at my webpage, has become an advertising-algorithmic-over saturated-bag of fruity turds desperately in need of a thumbs down option. YouTube is no better either with everyone having the right answers as well as being the worlds authority on nothing. The last video I watched (and showed to a group of senior students in the middle of putting their final projects together in dummy book form) was a guy claiming he shot 90 good images a year, sorry, 90 excellent images a year and that without instagram no one will buy your book. Obviously he was too young and daft to remember that books have been around a lot longer than any online platform and people like to go to book shops and buy a book. But what it all boiled down to was that basically anyone can make a book these days. To me this is no different to thinking your own life story would make a great novel, or a film and assume that everyone will be interested. Just because you can, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. What many also fail to see is that producing books cheaply and selling them cheaply takes away any value the work might of had to begin with. But that’s just my opinion (maybe I should have a youtube channel). Viewers on social media are not your audience, they are just spectators..