>>3080136>Why take photos if you're going to hide them from everyone except your grandma?>>3080847>Fuck off, nobody gives a shit about an anti-social autist that hates his own photographyI'm neither of those posters, this is my first post in the thread, but a couple thoughts:
First: there's a huge well of options available in between "obsessive viral marketing on Instagram" and "never showing anyone your work". You can still work offline even if it may not seem as ideal. You can treat social media with leisure. People seeing your work is great but it depends on how much effort you want to expend on that sort of thing, especially if you're just doing it as a hobby.
Second, while that post you responded to wasn't that great, you're assuming a whole lot about people who simply don't want to use instagram or general social media that heavily. Personally, I do believe that things like Flickr, 500px and of course the behemoth Instagram are changing the way a lot of people take photos, and not necessarily for the better. I'd argue, honestly, that people shouldn't only focus their efforts on what others want to see, because then they risk failing to please themselves.
I find often that my "fans" have a different idea of what my best photos are than I do. If I shot only for them, I wouldn't have photographs that satisfied the person making them. What better person is there to create images I care about than myself? I don't want to have to wait for others to put out work that I like when I can do it myself. Photography is not a medium people "consume" like they do with most other art like music, writing or movies - more people IMO are inclined to create work for themselves, and share their favorites so that others might appreciate it.