Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Tag: Facebook

My Facebook policy

Why I probably won’t accept your Facebook friend request.

27 October 2020
More handwringing about social media

I quit Twitter.

20 June 2020
Promoting your creative blog in social media: for now, the key is Facebook

Tips for using Facebook Groups for promoting your blog.

17 January 2020
Doubling down on Flickr

I’m going back to Flickr as the primary way I interact with photographs and photographers.

15 May 2019
Stuck on Facebook

Thoughts on why I stay on Facebook (and Instagram) even though I now think the company is evil.

19 February 2019
A new way to follow Down the Road

Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away. Hence my new Facebook page, where you can follow my blog, Down the Road.

30 July 2018
In case you were wondering why you don’t see me on Facebook very much anymore

Here’s why you don’t see me on Facebook very much anymore. (Peaceful landscape photo to calm those I will offend.)

8 June 2018
Why I stay on Facebook even though I don’t enjoy it much

I’d leave Facebook for good were it not for moments of real joy such as the one this photo, posted there, brought.

12 March 2018
Chasing fake Internet points

It’s become fashionable to bash people who chase likes, favorites, upvotes, etc. — and I say that it’s fine to chase them as long as what you get from it and what you are choosing not to do instead are not out of line.

14 February 2018
Online privacy for children and why you’ve never seen photos of my sons here

It wasn’t some higher motive that has kept me from posting photos of my children online, at least at first. It was their mom, who was afraid of online predators. Overafraid, if you ask me. Sharing photos of my sons playing at the park or blowing out their birthday candles was never going to invite…

28 September 2016
Favorite quotes

It used to be much more prominent, the list of favorite quotes that is still in everybody’s Facebook profile. If you look hard into my profile, you’ll find mine. For a long time I used to add to it every time I heard a quote that I liked. But the more Facebook buried the Favorite…

18 April 2016
Flickr has smartly repositioned itself to remain vital in photo sharing

When I started this blog, I found a great use for my languishing Flickr account: hosting most of the photos I share here. Flickr has been a great tool for sharing my photography everywhere on the Internet. The other day, I uploaded my 10,000th photo to Flickr. That’s a lot of photos! It’s so many that…

29 May 2015