These days we're all trapped (mostly on our own will) in a social networks. I guess the biggest consumer of our time and real social life is Facebook. Not only we can check what our friends are up to, we can read most intimate things, share romantic moments, sometimes become a witness of tragic events - all is there. Poking, liking, commenting and it seems that our social life is just one click away.
Debates about advantages and disadvantages will never stop, as there will always be people, who can't live without social networking, and people who will hate it forever.
I must admit I am mildly addicted to Facebook myself. I check it almost every day and can't really remember when was a last time a wrote big, warm e-mail to my friends or family back home.
Well lets return to the main subject - photo sharing on Facebook. I do it myself gladly whenever I have something nice or worth wasting time. Although I'm still quite shy and with a low self esteem as a photographer, so I rather share exceptionally with my friends. One can find most intimate family, party, daily life pictures, snapshots, self portraits made with computer cameras. Sometimes I just ask myself - is it photography? Or photography lost its value? And is it still considered as art, work of talented people?
I have no illustrating examples for this post as I don't really want to steal those snap shots from other users. Though I have no doubt we all know what I'm talking about..
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