I got duped into joining Facebook years ago. It was required to view some posted photos. I ended up posting a few pictures of the grandson 4 years ago and been inactive since. I didn't want to reveal much about my life, but willing to venture into others. I find a lot of pictures of food and the positive snapshots of people's lives.
I was doing fine until I decided to post a picture of myself. Why, I don't know. I needed to find a picture for my video promotional material and decided to include it in my Facebook page. Little did I know that once you post something new, it goes out to everyone on your friend's list. That is another story. So my question to my computer programmer son was how do you post without it going out announcing the changes? His answer, you can't. You can limit it to selected folks, but you can't stop it from announcing your new post. He reminded me that it is called social media, not anti social media. Hmmmm.
What brings up the subject is that I am contradictory in my peculiar preferences. I am in a senior video class where your final projects are viewed at a film festival in a theater on a big movie screen. Now I spent a lot of time on the project, developing a script, researching online archives, asking relatives for family photos, etc. Then came the process of combining all the components into one video film about six minutes long.
The purpose is two fold, to document people's stories and to show them publicly. The ultimate goal is to have them shown at other festivals. I spent the time making the video, but am reluctant to have people view it. It is bad enough I have trouble viewing it in a theater. Something about not being totally satisfied with the film and knowing where all the flaws are. During the creation process, no matter how many times you view it, you will always find a flaw to fix. Then there are those you just can't fix.
So why create it if you don't want people to view it? Welcome to my life.
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