The Social Media Effect

Just like anything else in life, social media has a definite life cycle. That life cycle has several critical elements and one feeds off of the other. It goes around and when the life cycle has reached its end, it starts all over again.

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Locations

Geolocations are gathered from the physical location of your mobile device, which allows users to store or tag their content to those coordinates. Keep in mind, this only applies if you tell Instagram to publicize your location.

The FallOut

So what is the effect? Social media has long lasting effects and the fallout is starting to be felt around the world. So the question is how do we combat the social media effect and limit the global fallout?

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The Rise Of Disaster Selfies
The Rise Of Disaster Selfies

Firefighters have slam disaster tourists who risked their lives to grab a selfie as out-of-control blaze threatened but as we research the rise of social media trends which gripped our social media platforms throughout the crisis, we explored is this a growing trend or one that Australia just hasn’t experienced.

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Photographers Are Crushing Puffins To Death.
Photographers Are Crushing Puffins To Death.

“visitors have a role to play in publicising conservation work on the island, but they must take more care when taking photos.”

Photographers at puffin hotspot Skomer Island are crushing birds to death to take the perfect picture, says wardens.

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A Climbing Ban at Uluru Ends a Chapter
A Climbing Ban at Uluru Ends a Chapter

Huge crowds made last-minute bids for the summit of Uluru as the countdown to a long-awaited ban on climbing entered its final days – but the monolith in central Australia is now closed to hikers.

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Another Tragic Selfie Death & The Struggles Of InstaFame
Another Tragic Selfie Death & The Struggles Of InstaFame

After another tragic social media influencer death at Vaucluse, we talk about the personal struggles on the InstaFame project and the battle to continue the project despite believing in it.

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Hugged to death? The Instagram generation are really bad news for beauty spots
Hugged to death? The Instagram generation are really bad news for beauty spots

Author: Andy Hutchinson (Sublime South)

Beauty spots across the world are being ruined thanks to a new generation of photographers who care only about their standing on social media and not about the landscape they exploit.

A rebuttal to are photographers socially responsible for damage to the environment or indirect injury?
A rebuttal to are photographers socially responsible for damage to the environment or indirect injury?

Author: Kieran Stone (Project RawCast)

This article is mainly a rebuttal to an article by @Tassiegrammer, which can be found here. It is a great topic that is worthy of discussion and I completely understand the many valid points he makes in the article.

Do photographers have a social responsibility to protect environmentally sensitive locations?
Do photographers have a social responsibility to protect environmentally sensitive locations?

Author: Tassiegrammer (Project RawCast)

Landscape & travel photographers, I am sure we have all done this before – we find the most incredible, scenic location, photograph it, share it onto our social media profiles, add as many hashtags or account mentions as we can in our captions hoping to get it re-shared by larger accounts therefore amplifying the images and our own personal reach.

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Woman Falls To Her Death Trying To Get End Of Coronavirus Lockdown Selfie// A woman fell 40 meters to her death while posing near the edge of a cliff for a photo to celebrate the end of a coronavirus lockdown. The woman was killed at the popular Dude
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