Comments on: Modern Art Notes Takes on Jerry Saltz’s Facebook Use

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:59:35 +0000

@artfagcity i agree that friend management is fallible. It would be interesting to get specifics of who he deleted.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:59:00 +0000

@artfagcity i agree that friend management is fallible. It would be interesting to get specifics of who he deleted.

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:59:27 +0000

@Alicia and Daniel: I’ve heard a few of those stories recently visa vi Saltz, and while I’m sure they are true, my own experience with less than half the number of friends Saltz has, is that it’s simply too time consuming to remove every friend who says something annoying or contrary. If I were to guess, I’d say some people were probably removed unnecessarily, while others are there who arguably shouldn’t be. Friend management is fallible.

@cjagers. I agree.

@anon. Re: the stupidity of the term art ghetto. Agreed!

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:59:00 +0000

@cjagers. I agree.

@anon. Re: the stupidity of the term art ghetto. Agreed!

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:59:00 +0000

@cjagers. I agree.

@anon. Re: the stupidity of the term art ghetto. Agreed!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:37:18 +0000

In response to Daniel’s note about Jerry Saltz deleting people who do not agree with his statement: That’s the most dangerous thing that can happen to a controversial discussion, whether it happens on a blog or Facebook. It kills insightful conversation, and makes it seem like he doesn’t actually want to hear what people say. It’s like selecting quotes for a press release–only positive, self-affirming quotes will be included. If he didn’t want people to talk back, he shouldn’t have posted that as a status message at all–that is the whole point of blogging and all this social media stuff.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:37:00 +0000

By: cjagers

cjagers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:33:16 +0000

@James Kalm: Trying to use FB as a blog is sucking up way more time than just using blogging tool. Most major writers (and grandmothers) do this, it is not cutting edge technology. I think Mr. Saltz is just getting bad advice.

By: cjagers

cjagers — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:33:00 +0000

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:00:39 +0000

Back several weeks ago when a lot of this started on Jerrys facebook page, I was a one of the 5,000 friends. Jerry had posted the Moma gender percentage figures to his status and people were commenting generously. The majority of comments were something like, “way to go Jerry” with only a few nay sayers in between, myself being one of them. Without giving you all the small details of the comments, after a few exchanges between myself, Jerry and other commenters, I was abruptly deleted as a friend by Jerry.
So the moral of the story is, if Jerry finds comments on his page that are not rude, vulgar or inappropriate, but simply contradictory within the context of a discussion, he just gets rid of you. Through a process like this he can effectually create a large chorus of yes people as “friends”. I don’t know about you but this seems like a dangerous practice for a critic. I was shocked.