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[ifob8]

Ive seen many pornographic pages on facebook, talking about these subjects, but never publishing pics however...I wonder if it is forbbiden...

[LoganX]

We've never been in facebook, or is it fakebook like it is named in our comics?

There was a facebook page up for DoFantasy for a little while. Perhaps it was put up by a fan rather than an official DoFantasy page. It was removed a few days after I discovered it.

[ROBERTS]

FaceBook actually has 'bots that look for nude pics...they recognize shapes and skin colors. If something gets a hit from a 'bot, a human goes to inspect it. Yes, all nude pics are forbidden on FB, but that doesn't mean they don't exist at all..some do seem to slip by. I know I have some art in my profile that isn't exactly regulation friendly, it's been there a long time.

[ROBERTS]

But additionally, a word about facebook and similar social network media...
There used to be this silly thing some people made fun of back in 95, called the "internet"...
Those people eventually found out after many others became millionaires, that it was not so silly. A lot of them found out that the Internet is either your friend or your enemy..like everyone in the magazine business now realizes. they thought the internet was silly too, now it eats them like a big shark. Television is also learning a hard lesson as they barely hang on to life with their boring shows. YouTube is already bigger than all TV combined.
Social Media is much more than a silly place where people post dog pics and baby videos and pick up girls. It is a tool if you know how to use it. Communication directly sent to 500 million people? FaceBook. Those who make fun of FaceBook do not really understand what it is..they have convinced 500 million users to give them a constantly updated stream of CONTENT, for FREE..and they sell advertising based on those enormous traffic numbers. FaceBook has nothing to do with the stupid crap people talk about, it is MONEY, and billions worth. You have that tool in your hand, now how will you use it? Yes, the Internet is changing, always, as everything does. Those who learn and embrace new methods and understand it will prosper. Those who continue to do things the same old ways and laugh at the new, will die off. Horse owners laughed at the auto. magazine publishers laughed at the internet. Now some laugh at social networking and the New Media. Let"s see how long it takes for those people to end up a pile of bones with the other dinosaurs.

[ernestgreene]

I agree to a point, but when any new communications medium appears, the death of all others is always predicted. TV was expected to kill both film and radio, but both found other ways to make and market products and both are still highly profitable. Publishing is way down for some types of publications, particularly daily newspapers, but electronic publishing may give new life to an industry that was otherwise already contracting. CD sales may have tanked in the music industry, but live music has had a renaissance and sale of singles through MP3 outlets brought back a medium that had been dormant for three decades.

Those who don't adapt will indeed perish. But I wouldn't assume that such adaptations won't occur. The history says otherwise. Last year, theatrical films made more money than in any 12 month period in the history of movies, mostly off a few blockbuster titles that took full advantage of the resources a theater can provide that neither a computer nor a TV set can. The resurgence of animation, a virtual backwater of the entertainment industry until Pixar came along, is another example of making a virtue of necessity.

It's not the tools that are the problem. It's they way they're used.

[ROBERTS]

I'm in full agreement. I wasn't declaring print media dead. What I said was, those who scoff at Internet and social media, refusing to see the tools for their potential, THOSE are the dinosaurs. It is Evolution, pure as it can be.

Publishers who scorn online publishing are doomed in my view. It is not the wave of the future, it is the wave of now.

The mass marketing potential of social media has been embraced by many and with really great results. Rock stars form personal bonds with fans directly now through Twitter..Vin Diesel started his FaceBook page, and personally wrote all the posts and talked directly to his fans..and "Fast Five" opened bigger than anyone ever dreamed because of it. It does take some unconventional thinking to embrace this brave New World, but those who "get it" realize that now more than ever, you too can be a global mega-star and court fans and buyers worldwide from an Ipod in your bathroom. That is a power to reckon with.

[ernestgreene]

With you on that 100%. The new marketing platform that works is mixed-media. Nina has thousands of followers on Twitter and Facebook and they help drive numbers at her pay site and for her videos.

Porn tends to be an early adopter in new technologies, form the VCR to small-format cameras. It was the first enterprise to turn mega-profits off the Web.

To turn away from that forward-thinking approach now just because the unintended consequences have been more challenging than previously is just plain stupid and those now failing in business because of that fearful response are going against the wisdom of their own prior experience.