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Originally Posted by nakedhippie
My thoughts are that although FB is helping to spread the awareness of these events, probably not too many pics are being posted there instead of flickr b/c flickr is still more anonymous. I know I don't want my family & friends seeing the nude pics I'm snapping. Flickr is probably losing posts b/c people know there're pervs like us posting 'em here. Hell, lately I've been posting here before flickr.
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Yet the number of B2B photos on flickr is shrinking annually...
I agree that shooters won't post potentially pervy galleries on their FB, but that wasn't my point. B2B isn't a "nude event." It's a huge cultural event that happens to involve some very limited nudity. Most of the photos we've found on flickr weren't from users who specialized in naked subjects. They were a small subset of much larger galleries depicting the entire event in it's entirety. Most of our naked pics came from photographers just documenting the event, with a naked photo or two sprinkled in.
If you shoot a gallery of a naked event, you wouldn't post it on FB. But if you shot 500 photos of B2B and a handful of them contained nudity, you might post them on FB and post a couple "LOL! Crazy naked people!" comments to innoculate yourself from the assumption you were a perv.
And let's be clear about what we mean by photographer, in the case of B2B. Usually it means a participant, a party-goer. Most of the pics I found on flickr were taken by people participating in the event, most likely with a drink in one hand and a camera in the other. Again, these kind of party pics are what FB specializes in.
Conversely, I don't expect WNBR or Fremont pics to shift to FB. You're right about the perv factor. No one wants to own up on FB to the fact that they deliberately went out and set about to shooting naked people. But I think B2B, where the nude shots can be declared "accidental," this is a factor.