Social Media - What not to do

[NORTI]

Okay so this thing has spread like wildfire now.

This is an Adelaide workshop who cropped a photo removing the watermark. Instead of removing it & apologising when challanged they went down a spiralling path of business brand destruction......

its like a train wreck on the fb page now.

Here is the comment that really started the fire....

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p...11412368901014

[Troy711]

Fir a minute there I thought this was about someone stealing photos from Minux and his website.

[Troy711]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...11412368901014

[NORTI]

Fir a minute there I thought this was about someone stealing photos from Minux and his website.

sorry to disappoint Troy

[NORTI]

SideWays Automotive's Photos - Profile Pictures | Facebook

this pic https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...23661234342794

[Stressball]

Hehe, I saw this. I screencapped pretty much the whole conversation to preserve the lulz for future enjoyment.

The number of people that have seen that comment thread now, good luck to them and their 'business'

There's now also a facebook 'like' page called "The awkward moment when Sideways Automotive does NOT steal your photos".

[ClairBear]

That is hillarious Danni. I doubt they will have a business by the end of next week the way this has gone viral.

I am now reading their wall where people are posting the funniest stuff for example:

Hello I was wondering if you could assist me in getting sideways in other areas of my life? Maybe in bed or while I'm cooking? Perhaps you could assist me in making my small business go sideways?

Panda's are jailed elsewhere in the world please help.

[87RB30VL]

They should make this their profile picture, since they will lose pretty much all business:

[Jesterarts]

That was an awesome ready. Facebook Karma ftw!

[Julie]

Pure gold, hilarious, I would encourage people to share with other forums they visit so they can get more karma.

[NORTI]

It has people commenting on the page from UK, Canada etc as it's gone viral.
I'm waiting for it to trend on twitter, but I think apple/jobs has dominated the trending topics for now lols

[Dum*P*ster]

Hahaha... It's hilarious
Making me LAUGH A LOT!!!

Could all be avoided by apologizing and deleting it .. Ahh well, rep has been hurt now

[VKCOMMO]

I may have accidentally trolled them.... on purpose

[hi_ryder]

i think once a pic hits the internet you cant stop people doing what ever they want with it. but that being said it is property of the photographer and these dudes are stupid for not deleting it.... if it was a business in china we'd have never herd about it unless you can troll in mandrin... but theft is still theft...

[Stressball]

i think once a pic hits the internet you cant stop people doing what ever they want with it. but that being said it is property of the photographer and these dudes are stupid for not deleting it.... if it was a business in china we'd have never herd about it unless you can troll in mandrin... but theft is still theft...

Photographers expect their stuff to be ripped off. You have three choices: 1) watermark across the whole image, no point stealing it since there's no way to recover the photo. 2) Watermark it and hope nobody crops it out, with the benefit of a clean photo. 3) Don't watermark, and never get credit at all.

I think in this case it's more that the douches had the audacity to actively remove the watermark (which is a dick move to start with), but then completely refused to either take the image down or put up the watermarked one instead. They didn't just steal the photo, they stole it then pretty much dared the photographer to do something about it. Which his mate obviously did, and now their business is toast, all because they refused to put a watermarked one up in it's place. Why? No clue. It's not like having a photographers brand visible affects the image in any way.

[Dum*P*ster]

Massive LOL and lots of appluse to person who uploaded this pic on there FB Wall :P
I can not stop laughing, I still find it funny.. ;p

[JustDylan]

###in LOL, This reminds me of that one Fresh prince of bel air episode where the son takes his fathers hat and the dad is all 'now give me my hat back' but he's already sold it on the street for drug money and carlton dies

[ucwepn]

Come at me brooo!! funny shit but the gay porn ppl are posting is pretty bad lol

[Julie]

I'm almost feeling sorrry for this tool, they got his phone no. now and sounds like they given him hell

[Dum*P*ster]

Heheh.. Im just more amazed, more and more people are clicking the Like button on the page.. just to comment and troll LOL.. (Im guilty) But its very VERY funny :P

Funny thing is, all he had to do was remove the pic and apologies, now it seems he may loose all the customers & the business LOL..

But, "hecter" going on about "I'm going to have 27 ( i think) protein shakes and go to bed. So I can burn down you're houses"

[Jesterarts]

Heheh.. Im just more amazed, more and more people are clicking the Like button on the page.. just to comment and troll LOL.. (Im guilty) But its very VERY funny :P

Funny thing is, all he had to do was remove the pic and apologies, now it seems he may loose all the customers & the business LOL..

But, "hecter" going on about "I'm going to have 27 ( i think) protein shakes and go to bed. So I can burn down you're houses"

Fark... I wold not want to be anywhere near that hector bloke... his farts are going to be BIBLICAL!