Hello all,
This is really aimed at anyone who users Facebook, though I suppose it could apply to people who are trying to use it as a platform for their photography promotion/business.
In a nutshell, the new format makes it easy, for people like me, who are busy and not Facebook obsessed, to make a huge mistake when "catching up" with people.
What happened?
Well, amongst all my usual work, we also moved home in August....so I didn't have internet access for a couple of weeks.
Logging in last Thursday, I saw a photo of my best friends' newborn baby. We shared a house during our university-days for two years, and I love them both to pieces. They moved to New Zealand from the UK, and I quickly added my congratulations.
Friday, I had an email from another friend who asked me to look again at the photo and the few "comments" among the 30-odd who had got the full picture....
...the baby had actually died, the day before he was due. He was induced thereafter as a normal medical requirement.
The photo, in his father's arms was their attempt to start the recovery process.
It's a beautiful picture, but a newborn baby with his/her eyes shut, looks just like that.
Suffice-to-say, I wrote a long, private message explaining my sadness for them, and an apology for adding a message without reading other comments properly.
Many others also had simply added a "congratulatory" message....so it's not just me.
It seems that the FB platform does now make it easy to make such a blunder.
SO, please, be careful.
Regards,
Simon
Who won't add swift comments again....to anything....including POTN threads!
