September 4, 2023 • 10 mins
Austin James talks about social media pages and what kind of an affect they have on our daily lives
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(00:00):
Okay, where was that music thatI had the opening? Oh that's being
built right now. Hi, thisis Austin James on Backstage Pass. Thank
you for listening, and thank youto all of the troops overseas who are
listening. We have a lot offolks chiming in from Caibro, Egypt.
Yeah, can you imagine that,England, also Israel. Thank you so
(00:21):
much, Kazakhstan. A lot ofpeople listening to this podcast, and I
appreciate you. A lot of times. I'd like to introduce and interview country
stars, musical people who are comingup, a lot of great musicians from
different genres of music. But onthis particular episode of Backstage Pass, I
(00:44):
want to talk about a couple ofthings that well have affected me personally professionally,
and I was hoping to maybe extendsome advice to you. On May
sixteenth of twenty twenty three, aboutten fifteen at night, I reached over
and I grabbed my phone, waswatching TV. Grabbed my phone. I
wanted to check Facebook, and therewas a display stating your page has been
(01:10):
disabled. Why I didn't get anynotifications, no warnings. I've never been
in Facebook jail. I never postanything disparaging or disgusting or anything like that.
Controversial, well a little bit,but every once a while you have
to kick over in nandpile, butnothing to the extreme. So I came
(01:30):
up to the radio station. Ithought maybe it was something wrong with my
phone, and I looked on mycomputer and brought up Facebook and boomed,
there it was. It was disabled. That was on May sixteen. So
three days later, which was aFriday, I decided to start a new
page. It was about twelve o'clockin the afternoon. I was here at
(01:51):
work and start a new page,started gathering friends. Well, before you
know it, around four four thirtythat page was disabled. Is well,
what's going on? What happened?I have no idea. Went to the
help center, which is no help, absolutely not no help whatsoever. And
(02:12):
I wanted to submit a form fora review, so I hit submit and
the response was could not process yourrequest. Please try again later. Well
I did, and I did,and I did over and over and over
again, and nothing happened, noresponse, no nothing. I mean,
it's just pathetic, it really is. I'm sorry. I know they have
(02:35):
probably automatic bots that look at certainpages and say, no, that's not
what we supposed to have on ourFacebook page, and you're going against community
standards and all this other stuff.But look, the only thing I want
to get back is my pictures.Okay, now, it did state that
you hit this button and download yourpersonal information. While I did that,
(02:58):
well, it only downloaded my profilepicks, not my other pictures. I
just want my pictures back. SoI concentrated on Instagram, and my page
was still up on Instagram and itwas hooked to my original Facebook page,
so that's that's kind of nuts.And I know it's owned by the same
company, but whatever. Then Istarted paying more attention to my Twitter page,
(03:22):
which, by the way, Twitterhas been rocking. I'm not quite
sure. I understand the x Xas a name. I understand why he
wants to. Elon Musk wanted toget away from Twitter, you know,
some negative connotations with it and everythingelse. Plus Elon wanted to do his
own deal. That's fine, butjust X the name X, I don't
(03:44):
know. It's just kind of strange. But anyway, I was concentrating on
that, and between the two Iwas doing well. But for here at
work, I needed access admin accessto the radio stations Facebook pages, so
I recently built our started a newFacebook page. This is what going on
(04:08):
two or three weeks and so farit's okay. As I am recording this
podcast on September fourth, which isLabor Day, I'm laboring on Labor Day.
Well, we all do, don'twe to a point? So anyway,
hopefully that will stay out. Butmy deal is, are we too
dependent on social networking? I meansocial networking? Social media as an entity
(04:32):
itself is cool, it's a greattool. But are we really so dependent
on these things like our wireless phones? I say cell phones because you feel
like you're captured. You know,you're in prison. You're prison to these
things. To these phones. We'reconstantly looking at them and constantly trying to,
(04:59):
I don't know, fine out informationat a at an instant clip like
that. Now I will say thatmy wireless phone, my well, my
cell phone, wireless phone, geez. My cell phone is a great tool
for here at the radio station.I can do remotes with it, and
it sounds great. It sounds likeI'm in the next studio and it has
(05:20):
fantastic tools. And I like sharingpictures of vacations and barbecue and friends and
whatnot. It's all cool, butwe're it feels like we are dependent on
these things. I mean so dependentthat we panic when something goes wrong.
And I'm I'm ashamed to admit thatI did panic when I found out that
(05:43):
my Facebook page was disabled. Andit's and it's horrible to to think that
and to act like that, butit's it's it's true, and I actually
was a aimed of myself to realize, oh my god, I am dependent
(06:06):
on these pages Facebook, Instagram,Twitter, which is now x but look
how many they have out there.I'm not a member of TikTok. I
don't do TikTok. You got TikTok. You have now threads, which is
part of Instagram. You got Facebook. Remember the only one was MySpace.
(06:28):
Everybody was on MySpace. Wow,it seems like the world was a lot
better than but we're just drowning inthis opportunity that this digital landscape. It's
just unbelievable to me how dependent weare on these things. And I am
ashamed to admit a gang that Iwas really shaken when my Facebook page was
(06:54):
disabled. And it's still disabled.My original Facebook page is disabled. Now
you can find me on Facebook.Austin James, I have a orange hat
in the profile picture. But it'sjust crazy. I'm just hoping that in
time that people realize, hey,these things are cool, but they're not
(07:15):
supposed to take over our lives.Case in point, I do a lot
of events, a lot of concerts, and I take lots of pictures for
our websites. And I have aregular camera. And when I say a
regular camera, a regular digital camera. That's it's a regular camera as double
A batteries in it, not therechargeable battery, but the double A batteries
(07:38):
that you put in there. Andit's a snapshot camera, super shot.
I think it's a cannon. Okay, Well, the past couple of shows
that I've done, I have noticedthat people are bringing in hortable cameras as
opposed to their phones. Now whatdoes that mean they want better quality pictures?
(08:00):
I don't know. Now, Ido know with the phone, with
the digital phone, obviously you havethe smartphone, digital phone. Everything's digital
now, but the smartphone. Yeah, you can take some pretty cool pictures
and some video and whatnot, butyou have to admit the pictures that are
taken with the camera phone aren't asgood as an old fashioned hold in two
(08:24):
hands camera like I have, andI love it now. Obviously it doesn't
have Wi Fi and all that otherstuff on it, but hey, what
the heck? They have really goodpictures. I'm a matter of fact.
You can check them out at wynk dot com slash Austin James. Well,
anyway, just let me know aboutyour digital life. Do you think
(08:46):
that we're drowning in digital opportunity?It just seems it's just so much.
It really does. And sometimes wehave to take a step back and say,
hold it a minute. We haveto we have to rest up a
little bit on this stuff. Andmy advice to you do not, and
(09:09):
I'm telling you, do not dependon these media are these digital media pages,
these digital social pages to store youpictures, store you pictures somewhere where
you have control over them. Look, don't let what happened to me happen
(09:30):
to you. I had a bunchof pictures on Facebook, pictures of my
family, my mother and my fatherbefore he passed away in two thousand and
four. Thanksgiving, Christmas pictures,Disney World, vacation pictures, all that
stuff. It was on my Facebookpage, and some pictures of some older
pictures of people that I hadn't seenin a while. Uh, a lot
of jeep driving pictures that I havea couple of videos and whatnot, but
(09:54):
that's all gone for now. I'mhoping that one day I will sign into
my original Facebook page and there yougo, It'll be there. You know,
everything will be there. But inthe time, for the time being,
I have a new Facebook page.You can look me up there.
Austin James now on Instagram and threadsand x formally Twitter. My user name
(10:16):
for all of those three, thosethree will it's Austin James FM, A
U S T I N J ME S FM. You know, Austin
James FM like FM radio. Soanyway, thank you so much for listening
to all those troops out there again. Thank you for your sacrifice, thank
you for your family sacrifice, andhopefully you can be back home soon.
(10:39):
Now. If you'd like to checkout more episodes of this wonderful, fantastic,
unbelievable podcast, which is called BackstagePass, look it up on iHeartRadio
or wherever you get your podcasts.I am Austin James for Backstage Pass.
Thanks for listening.
Okay, where was that music thatI had the opening? Oh that's being
built right now. Hi, thisis Austin James on Backstage Pass. Thank
you for listening, and thank youto all of the troops overseas who are
listening. We have a lot offolks chiming in from Caibro, Egypt.
Yeah, can you imagine that,England, also Israel. Thank you so
(00:21):
much, Kazakhstan. A lot ofpeople listening to this podcast, and I
appreciate you. A lot of times. I'd like to introduce and interview country
stars, musical people who are comingup, a lot of great musicians from
different genres of music. But onthis particular episode of Backstage Pass, I
(00:44):
want to talk about a couple ofthings that well have affected me personally professionally,
and I was hoping to maybe extendsome advice to you. On May
sixteenth of twenty twenty three, aboutten fifteen at night, I reached over
and I grabbed my phone, waswatching TV. Grabbed my phone. I
wanted to check Facebook, and therewas a display stating your page has been
(01:10):
disabled. Why I didn't get anynotifications, no warnings. I've never been
in Facebook jail. I never postanything disparaging or disgusting or anything like that.
Controversial, well a little bit,but every once a while you have
to kick over in nandpile, butnothing to the extreme. So I came
(01:30):
up to the radio station. Ithought maybe it was something wrong with my
phone, and I looked on mycomputer and brought up Facebook and boomed,
there it was. It was disabled. That was on May sixteen. So
three days later, which was aFriday, I decided to start a new
page. It was about twelve o'clockin the afternoon. I was here at
(01:51):
work and start a new page,started gathering friends. Well, before you
know it, around four four thirtythat page was disabled. Is well,
what's going on? What happened?I have no idea. Went to the
help center, which is no help, absolutely not no help whatsoever. And
(02:12):
I wanted to submit a form fora review, so I hit submit and
the response was could not process yourrequest. Please try again later. Well
I did, and I did,and I did over and over and over
again, and nothing happened, noresponse, no nothing. I mean,
it's just pathetic, it really is. I'm sorry. I know they have
(02:35):
probably automatic bots that look at certainpages and say, no, that's not
what we supposed to have on ourFacebook page, and you're going against community
standards and all this other stuff.But look, the only thing I want
to get back is my pictures.Okay, now, it did state that
you hit this button and download yourpersonal information. While I did that,
(02:58):
well, it only downloaded my profilepicks, not my other pictures. I
just want my pictures back. SoI concentrated on Instagram, and my page
was still up on Instagram and itwas hooked to my original Facebook page,
so that's that's kind of nuts.And I know it's owned by the same
company, but whatever. Then Istarted paying more attention to my Twitter page,
(03:22):
which, by the way, Twitterhas been rocking. I'm not quite
sure. I understand the x Xas a name. I understand why he
wants to. Elon Musk wanted toget away from Twitter, you know,
some negative connotations with it and everythingelse. Plus Elon wanted to do his
own deal. That's fine, butjust X the name X, I don't
(03:44):
know. It's just kind of strange. But anyway, I was concentrating on
that, and between the two Iwas doing well. But for here at
work, I needed access admin accessto the radio stations Facebook pages, so
I recently built our started a newFacebook page. This is what going on
(04:08):
two or three weeks and so farit's okay. As I am recording this
podcast on September fourth, which isLabor Day, I'm laboring on Labor Day.
Well, we all do, don'twe to a point? So anyway,
hopefully that will stay out. Butmy deal is, are we too
dependent on social networking? I meansocial networking? Social media as an entity
(04:32):
itself is cool, it's a greattool. But are we really so dependent
on these things like our wireless phones? I say cell phones because you feel
like you're captured. You know,you're in prison. You're prison to these
things. To these phones. We'reconstantly looking at them and constantly trying to,
(04:59):
I don't know, fine out informationat a at an instant clip like
that. Now I will say thatmy wireless phone, my well, my
cell phone, wireless phone, geez. My cell phone is a great tool
for here at the radio station.I can do remotes with it, and
it sounds great. It sounds likeI'm in the next studio and it has
(05:20):
fantastic tools. And I like sharingpictures of vacations and barbecue and friends and
whatnot. It's all cool, butwe're it feels like we are dependent on
these things. I mean so dependentthat we panic when something goes wrong.
And I'm I'm ashamed to admit thatI did panic when I found out that
(05:43):
my Facebook page was disabled. Andit's and it's horrible to to think that
and to act like that, butit's it's it's true, and I actually
was a aimed of myself to realize, oh my god, I am dependent
(06:06):
on these pages Facebook, Instagram,Twitter, which is now x but look
how many they have out there.I'm not a member of TikTok. I
don't do TikTok. You got TikTok. You have now threads, which is
part of Instagram. You got Facebook. Remember the only one was MySpace.
(06:28):
Everybody was on MySpace. Wow,it seems like the world was a lot
better than but we're just drowning inthis opportunity that this digital landscape. It's
just unbelievable to me how dependent weare on these things. And I am
ashamed to admit a gang that Iwas really shaken when my Facebook page was
(06:54):
disabled. And it's still disabled.My original Facebook page is disabled. Now
you can find me on Facebook.Austin James, I have a orange hat
in the profile picture. But it'sjust crazy. I'm just hoping that in
time that people realize, hey,these things are cool, but they're not
(07:15):
supposed to take over our lives.Case in point, I do a lot
of events, a lot of concerts, and I take lots of pictures for
our websites. And I have aregular camera. And when I say a
regular camera, a regular digital camera. That's it's a regular camera as double
A batteries in it, not therechargeable battery, but the double A batteries
(07:38):
that you put in there. Andit's a snapshot camera, super shot.
I think it's a cannon. Okay, Well, the past couple of shows
that I've done, I have noticedthat people are bringing in hortable cameras as
opposed to their phones. Now whatdoes that mean they want better quality pictures?
(08:00):
I don't know. Now, Ido know with the phone, with
the digital phone, obviously you havethe smartphone, digital phone. Everything's digital
now, but the smartphone. Yeah, you can take some pretty cool pictures
and some video and whatnot, butyou have to admit the pictures that are
taken with the camera phone aren't asgood as an old fashioned hold in two
(08:24):
hands camera like I have, andI love it now. Obviously it doesn't
have Wi Fi and all that otherstuff on it, but hey, what
the heck? They have really goodpictures. I'm a matter of fact.
You can check them out at wynk dot com slash Austin James. Well,
anyway, just let me know aboutyour digital life. Do you think
(08:46):
that we're drowning in digital opportunity?It just seems it's just so much.
It really does. And sometimes wehave to take a step back and say,
hold it a minute. We haveto we have to rest up a
little bit on this stuff. Andmy advice to you do not, and
(09:09):
I'm telling you, do not dependon these media are these digital media pages,
these digital social pages to store youpictures, store you pictures somewhere where
you have control over them. Look, don't let what happened to me happen
(09:30):
to you. I had a bunchof pictures on Facebook, pictures of my
family, my mother and my fatherbefore he passed away in two thousand and
four. Thanksgiving, Christmas pictures,Disney World, vacation pictures, all that
stuff. It was on my Facebookpage, and some pictures of some older
pictures of people that I hadn't seenin a while. Uh, a lot
of jeep driving pictures that I havea couple of videos and whatnot, but
(09:54):
that's all gone for now. I'mhoping that one day I will sign into
my original Facebook page and there yougo, It'll be there. You know,
everything will be there. But inthe time, for the time being,
I have a new Facebook page.You can look me up there.
Austin James now on Instagram and threadsand x formally Twitter. My user name
(10:16):
for all of those three, thosethree will it's Austin James FM, A
U S T I N J ME S FM. You know, Austin
James FM like FM radio. Soanyway, thank you so much for listening
to all those troops out there again. Thank you for your sacrifice, thank
you for your family sacrifice, andhopefully you can be back home soon.
(10:39):
Now. If you'd like to checkout more episodes of this wonderful, fantastic,
unbelievable podcast, which is called BackstagePass, look it up on iHeartRadio
or wherever you get your podcasts.I am Austin James for Backstage Pass.
Thanks for listening.
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