you took this thread all wrong didn't you ? Its advice the fan hand book. I think it is an invaluable thread ..
its a suggestion ..isn't it
read it again Richard this time without the steam blowing out your ears.
Ok, lets get back to this after the little break of forum downtime
So another thing fans should know is Who Is A Reputable Source of Information.
Lets start with the basics, this forum. One of the easiest ways is by looking at the join dates of members, which is listed on everyone's profile. While I know there are some people who were members and have joined, the majority of OG members, people who were active in the online fan communities when Michael was alive have their original join date on their profile. 2007, 2008, 2009 were when the online community was very active, and MJJC was one of the biggest, most active forums. Everyone joined here, even if they didnt post. So look at peoples profiles, and if they have a join date before 2010, it means they were here when Michael was alive.
This is important, as when Michael was alive, the fan community was very active but a lot smaller. Huge amounts of information was known and shared in the fan community that was not known by casual fans and the general public.
So who else is a reputable source of information and how do you figure out which is genuine information based in fact and which is just internet speculation.
Another problem is those apps that people use to restore low quality pictures. The resulting pictures appear to be higher quality, so they are shared more than the original pictures, but the problem is that those apps can't restore the pictures without altering Michael's facial features. For people who have been fans for a long time, it's easy to immediately recognize those altered pictures, because we know Michael's face so well that we can notice the small differences, like the shape of his teeth or his nose being different. But I fear new fans won't know what the real Michael Jackson actually looked like if they only see those altered pictures. I fear that with time, the original low quality pictures will disappear as they are replaced by those badly restored pictures.I created a separate there here The Fake Photos Thread but it needs to be included here too.
This is something which used to be on other forums, so I'm bringing it back to MJCC.
Fake and digitally altered photos are wrong. They destroy Michaels history and confuse the fan community. Fans need to know which is a real photo of Michael, so that they can know and understand the person he was.
Some examples of fake photos
The real photo is Lisa Maria Presley and Nicolas Cage
The photo of Michael is from the court case with Marcel Avarm in relation to the cancelled Millennium concerts, Santa Barbara Court November 2002
Yes exactly, the real Michael being lost because people are "fixing him" and making him into what they want him to be, not the person he was.
I don't think it's because they want to fix him, they just want to fix the pictures because they are low quality, but the process unintentionally messes up Michael's real facial features and I don't think they notice because they are not familiar enough yet with Michael's face to notice the small differences. If people always posted the original picture along with the "restored" picture it wouldn't bother me so much, but the fact that the altered picture gets shared while the original picture disappears is really worrisome.
Done
I haven't read it yet, but im curious as to why his autobiography was reissued
When he died. It had been out of print and they reissued it with a new page at the front. You really should read it. Its ghost written, from audio tapes of interviews with Michael but at the time, it was such an eye opening insight into Michael. I got it when it was first published back in 1988, when I was a young teen. It was one of the first real sources of information I had about Michael and I used to read it over and over for years.
I will definitely be trying to get my hands on a copy, thank you!
It's everything from the tone, the words used, and just the general feeling behind the idea.
You see???
It's a beautiful thread and I wish it could be a prioritized sticky thread. I feel that many of our members are really finding it essential.
Yes, have noticed too .. and having threads like this has almost brought MJJC back to how it once was , in a way...so i really thank you for that moon.
You should note which ones were true friends and which ones stabbed Michael in the back (like Bob Jones).
I did think about that, but it gets complicated , sigh, I'm thinking that for a new to the community person that by just giving the names and the connection , that people would then go and research that person. Im trying to keep it simple, the basics, so not to have information overload
Maybe just put in red the names of the people who can't be trusted?I did think about that, but it gets complicated , sigh, I'm thinking that for a new to the community person that by just giving the names and the connection , that people would then go and research that person. Im trying to keep it simple, the basics, so not to have information overload
Beautiful words, thank you, Ive added it to the first post
Do not hesitate to correct spelling mistakes, since english is not my native languageBeautiful words, thank you, Ive added it to the first post
OK, totally off topic, but am I seriously the only person to have not known of Michael's existence until maybe two years ago!?
