Social media has become such an integral part of a photographer's journey. I myself had become so immersed in it that I’d spend a large portion of my day on apps like Instagram and Twitter. Building profiles, portraying the perfect life and living for likes, it absorbs so many of us, including myself.
I’ve known for a while that I was moving towards a point where I had to break free. . thephoblographer.com
There is a lot of talk these days about social media use and its effects on children. It seems that states are proposing and passing laws restricting social media left and right, with California, Texas, and New York, among others, passing social media-related laws last year. petapixel.com »
2024-02-15 01:10
A new social media app called Hotshot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate fake photos of users and their friends -- in any scenario that they want. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-05-09 20:40
In this guide, we’ll cover some of our key tips for visualizing creator culture on social media in 2022 for your Licensing portfolio. The post Capturing the age of influencers and sharing on social media appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »
2022-03-29 14:30
Many photographers have had the same reaction that I did upon hearing about yet another new social media app hitting the radar: a yawn and a roll of the eyes. We have seen countless apps and image-sharing sites emerge with fanfare and then fail to gain traction in the crowded sphere of social media, and […] petapixel.com »
2021-02-13 21:26
Social media is always an uproar, there’s no way around it. Photography social media is much the same, and mostly it’s mostly harmless fun. I want to draw attention to two recent episodes that were not harmless fun, and which I worry point toward a larger trend. petapixel.com »
2020-09-15 20:07
I had read this story about a social media influencer who posted professional photos of her accident on Instagram along with what appeared to be a product placement. I thought it unbelievable until… it happened to me. petapixel.com »
2019-08-29 21:00
Senator Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill designed to ban the “addictive” tricks used by social networking services to hook users and increase the amount of time they spend on their platforms. petapixel.com »
2019-07-30 20:03
The majority of U. S. visa applicants are now required to submit social media handles/usernames as part of their applications. This requirement, which was billed as a necessity for national security by the State Department, includes Instagram and Flickr among the 20 social platforms listed on its online application form. dpreview.com »
2019-06-05 02:37
In the U.S. and most industrialized nations, we have a collective infatuation with technology but a poor understanding of its effects – both intended and unintended. We love asking Siri to play our favorite song, but don’t fully consider the privacy implications of allowing the device to persistently listen to us. We love the convenience […] petapixel.com »
2018-11-09 18:50
At the time of writing this piece, I've kept myself unplugged from most social media for over a month. I'm not completely against social media but I don't think it's either healthy and beneficial for us, humans being a highly sociable species. thephoblographer.com »
2018-04-24 07:00
As photographers we are constantly wearing multiple hats, everything from an accountant to the salesman, to customer service, to photographer, and marketer. A big piece of that these days is social media and how we promote ourselves on these platforms can often be the gateways to greater successes in our careers. thephoblographer.com »
2017-12-18 14:00
Want to win at social media in 2017? The folks over at On Blast Blog did some research on tips, tricks, and best practices, and they’ve created a helpful cheat sheet infographic with all kinds of helpful nuggets of wisdom. petapixel.com »
2017-01-18 21:54
There are more ways than ever to get your photography noticed online—from photo sharing platforms like Instagram to online resume site LinkedIn. If you intend to use them all, we definitely suggest you give this handy social media image size infographic a peek. petapixel.com »
2016-12-12 20:14
Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.
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A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest. [Read More]
Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update. [Read More]
About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images. [Read More]
Meta was rumored to be working on a standalone Twitter competitor, and a new leak shows not only what it might look like, but also how it would pair and sync with Instagram and other apps. [Read More]
Last week, Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use the announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of views one of my photos received on Twitter vs. Flickr. [Read More]
Hive Social is back online, two weeks after its creators abruptly shut the service down in order to address security issues. [Read More]