Using Facebook doesn't mean you are sharing your work with unknown masses.
I could also never understand this.
I fully understand the need to advertise for any business, whether full or part time. However, my assumption, in the context of this thread, was that "sharing" meant making one's work available to the general public in complete absence of any commercial consideration. That is the the activity of which the motivation leaves me somewhat puzzled.
No...never been on Facebook. Whenever I ask people how they use it, I get answers that sound a lot like "blah, blah, blah" to me.
You're puzzled because you don't seem to understand that sharing on Facebook does not mean sharing with the general public unless you want to.
Then maybe you're not the best person to respond to posts about Facebook.
I didn't - go read it again.
That's not fundamentally different than posting them on Facebook or your website.
If one trusts the representations of that company in regard of who can access the photographs, the posting of photographs with restricted access may be the equivalent of what I do on my "darkweb" server. So this is not what I was talking about.
Sorry, I misunderstood this to be a comment about Facebook or at least social media.
What on earth is a "darkweb" server?
It was a comment about "...unknown masses of individuals on the Internet".
Whatever. There are also unknown masses of individuals using Facebook or social media/networks to do things other than stroke their egos.
"I never undestood where the motivation for "sharing" one's work with unknown masses of individuals on the Internet..."
Simply a technical term for a web resource that is accessible only by explicit URL, and not by search-engine indexes or by references in social media or similar platforms.
That's not dark web and you might not want to associate a private server that shares photos as being part of the actual dark web.
But that was the context in which I initially shared my images on FB and IG; completely non-business related. It morphed into a sort of business as a result of the sharing.
I'd say the same difference as there is between leaving your house unlocked, with anybody able to enter at any time, and opening your door only to people you invited.
Sounds like you already have an idea in your head what FB is all about, so you've subconsciously set up filters so anything anyone tells you isn't going to sound positive.
No, they just don't tell me any specifics.
