Re: Another photographer is raiding my Facebook friends list
kakomu: I guess, if I put myself in your and his shoes, I can see the appeal in stalking my friends list every day and contacting every single person who was listed there. My friends list was like a free cache of \"people interested in photography services\" and I suppose, to a lot of people, they would see that as a potential gold mine and figure that the potential reward outweigh any moral obligations.
The people on that list came to me through Facebook ads, school newspaper and yearbook ads and through fellow clients. I paid for the first two and worked for the last one by developing good relationships with my clients. I guess it\'s silly of me to expect everyone to be willing to work to meet clients, not when they can just leech off of my friends list.
Que sera, sera. I just wanted to vent a little. You think I\'m being irrational. I think the other photographer is being unprofessional. We\'ll agree to disagree.
I just know when I started my business there was a community of photographers who worked together. It was fun and challenging and kept us all at the top of our games. Now it\'s devolved into a community of photographers who are in competition. It still keeps the best of us at the top of our games, but I think it\'s sad it reached the point where \"anything goes so long as I can make money.\"
Nov 16, 2009 at 05:13 PM
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