Presumably it would only be a benefit to your or the agency if you have people visiting your FB page who might buy images, but don't already use the agency/your port.
Otherwise, you're possibly just annoying your contacts/friends, especially if they're the sort of boring stocky photos that sell well, but are not the sort you show your friends.
(Take that with a pinch of salt if you like. I'm on FB, but for me it's totally pointless altogether as I hardly know anyone else who's on there.)

Presumably it would only be a benefit to your or the agency if you have people visiting your FB page who might buy images, but don't already use the agency/your port.
Otherwise, you're possibly just annoying your contacts/friends, especially if they're the sort of boring stocky photos that sell well, but are not the sort you show your friends.
(Take that with a pinch of salt if you like. I'm on FB, but for me it's totally pointless altogether as I hardly know anyone else who's on there.)

exactly.. I honestly don�t understand why posting I sold this or got this approved because in the end if you haven�t got any buyers there its basically just screwing your own business in the long run, I noticed that quite often, a guy selling a wrinkled paper everyday and a few weeks after more 4 or 5 friends more report sales on newer files and what is it? the wrinkled paper lol

sure other do it thinking of the referral earnings, I guess looking for buyers/sellers referral income but in fact I don�t believe it will work out.. again wasting time and money

My Facebook account is not searchable by the search engines (you can set this in the security settings on Facebook).  I see no point in it and I too have left folks on Facebook and Twitter because they do this.

Quote from: niserin on May 06, 2012, 08:46

Hey,

I have been wondering what is the point of synchronizing your microstock accounts with social networks like Twitter, Facebook.
I mean for instance the automatic posting on the Facebook wall how many pictures of yours were approved and sold.
Does it have any marketing/financial sense for us stock photographers or is it just a form of free advertising for microstock sites ?

Best,
Michal

That would be truly annoying, and I have already dropped several people who have those "I sold 4 images on Shutterstock today" auto-postings.

yep - i tried it when it was first offered, but i quickly got tired of seeing MY OWN postings every day.  it makes little sense, other than building traffic for FB and the agencies