Please Like Us!

[BillShipton]

Hi

Just updated the little known shop.co.uk page on Facebook. If you are a fan of our website do go and 'like' our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/splosh.co.uk . Many thanks.

Bill

[Bones]

Have checked it out mate but I cant like it im afraid despite loving it - only have my main fbk account and the grief I get from my friends when I "like" a simple clothed and non-messy pic of Rachel Riley is bad enough....

Tell you what, give her a good Sploshing and you've got a deal

[driversoft]

Indeed - since you're only supposed to have a single Facebook account - and in your real name at that - I can't see a swathe of Facebook likes being generated for this or any fetish site. As a society there are still limits to our social natures - we've not gone quite that "Web II' yet - nor are we ever likely to, IMHO.

[Trouso]

Indeed - since you're only supposed to have a single Facebook account - and in your real name at that - I can't see a swathe of Facebook likes being generated for this or any fetish site. As a society there are still limits to our social natures - we've not gone quite that "Web II' yet - nor are we ever likely to, IMHO.

Sorry, Driversoft, this isn't quite correct. The Splosh page is legitimate fan/organisation/company page. You are allowed to create any number of these using your own Facebook account/or administrate them on behalf of others within the terms and conditions/codes of conduct etc. From here you may use them for free, relying on your own efforts to promote and network or Facebook offers a number of commercial packages to promote them.

What you're not allowed to do is create an identity for an entity other than an individual using a personal account, or multiple identities pretending to be different people.

[driversoft]

I didn't mean to suggest that a Splosh page would be in anyway illegitimate - though on reflection I can see that could be inferred from my post. Thanks for the rule clarification too - but at the end of day for an individual to craft an 'anonymous' Facebook entity, and then to trust Facebook to preserve that anonymity, would exceed any reasonable expectations I believe anyone should have for said site. Facebook is deliberately designed both to be as public as possible in appearance, and as obfuscated as possible in operation (the latter enabling the former). It is, after all the creation of a man to whom the 'dumb fucks' (to use his own words, in their original context) trusted their data.

Like the previous poster, I'll have to offer my 'Like' to Splosh Facebook by visiting it from time to time.

[Trouso]

I suspect you're quite right. Unless you've managed to construct a complete, fully 'friended' Facebook life under a pseudonym (which as you suggest, is pretty much impossible), or you're 100% out of the closet (and I mean 100%), there's a great risk of uncovering a potential 'conflict of interests' somewhere in your network.

Sadly, Facebook might yet be a little too public a forum for me to declare my love of Splosh! to the world.

And I feel a bit bad saying that.

[driversoft]

The fact that you feel even a little sad in saying that shows what a good job the Facebook PR wonks are doing - it's all warm, and cuddly, isn't it? How could you say no to that?

Do I feel upset at effectively withholding my most personal data from a corporate entity whose sole objective is to monetise it and make its wealthy shareholders even wealthier? Not in the slightest!

[Trouso]

Sad for Splosh! - not Facebook.

[snake]

an interesting debate. and some interesting points raised...

I'm with bonesiii et. al. when I say I like Splosh but I won't be liking the Splosh! page.

I've always thought of posting to facebook as similar to emailing a message to my entire email address book. While I'm happy to email everyone I know, (friends, family, workmates, former workmates etc) to say that I've had a lovely day a the beach and that I could now do with a nice nap or some such, I'm unlikely to email them all to say that I enjoy a messy fetish...and, here - look at these amazing messy pics!

So, sorry Bill, I think you're asking too much. Be assured though that you do indeed have a massive and loyal (albeit mostly clandestine) following in the real world - me included.

[Bones]

Thats a very good way of putting it snake, I like that.

I have a few friends who know what i like (or at least SOME of what I like lol) - but they just find it funny and would certainly take the piss if I posted about it - as for the others... yeh Ive only told a few for a reason!

Id guess that probably around half of the facebook accounts in existence are fake / alts etc and clearly if I had one Id be all over the splosh page like a rash - or more accurately a nice stinky bucket of slop, but as I dont have one (hell that would be too confusing!), I shall merely like from the closet... the splosh closet that is

[BillShipton]

Well, what a miserable bunch of....

Along with a lot of people I know I have been happily combining both my ordinary life and splosh life on Facebook with no ill consequences. I do not share information with Facebook I don't want to (schools, life history etc) and apart from the odd ad (not nearly as 'relevant' as they like to claim) they have never pestered me. Google could glean far more info from me by my searches on that than Fb even could.

I am sorry that after 24 years, you are still not comfortable enough with sploshing to even admit to 'liking' it. What a waste of my life.

[Bones]

Ive liked sploshing for longer than 24 years Bill Is that how long Splosh has been active tho? Wow - thats some going!

But the point with facebook and similar sites is that employers will now use that (rightly or wrongly) to discriminate against potential and/or current employees.

As I sadly am not fortunate enough to work in the WAM industry, its a part of my private life that I unfortunately cannot openly share to that extent.

[Richard]

Sorry but I don't 'do' facebook, or any other such sites open to the world in general.
Splosh (and UMD), are different, being aimed at a group who are already converts to the fetish. I realise that we would like to get more members who might purchase more vids & pics from the producers thus keeping them in business to produce more stuff for us all to buy and enjoy. But simply typing the word "messy" or "wetlook" into Google as I did many years ago would get them here.

[driversoft]

Bill - we're not being miserable, just pragmatic. 'Liking' something on Facebook is making a public declaration, almost certainly directly attributable to your real self. I'm not worried about Facebook spamming me, but about the consequences of what I consider to be a 'private' life (it's presumably called that for a good reason) becoming public. If we could easily make ourselves public in that way, then we'd be happy using our own names on the Splosh site - but no-one does, and for the self-same reasons (yourself being the honourable exception). None of this in any way denigrates your excellent efforts over the last quarter century - it's just the way us humans are. However, here's a question. Is part of the appeal of Splosh (or any other fetish) its illicit nature? If Sploshing were somehow to become so acceptable that we were all prepared to admit to it in public, would it lose some of its appeal through that very process?

[BillShipton]

Would the same apply to 'following' the site on Twitter?