J. J. Franzen: Animator, visual effects artist and visual effects supervisor in Los Angeles, California.

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Hi, Nice to connect with you. I want to invite you to enter our Animation Contest on Film Skillet www.filmskillet.com/contests We're giving away cash prizes and the Entry is Free. Would love to have you participate. Best Regards, Kandie

Thank you for the connection. Look forward to hearing more about your work & projects. I'm currently working as an intern for UK Music Producer Eliot Kennedy (Spice Girls, Bryan Adams, Take That) Here's a few links if you'd like to join me on twitter or listen to my music. .. http://www.twitter.com/maxmusiccouk http://www.reverbnation/maxmusic Cheers J.J

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Hey Jody, a few days ago we implemented a new privacy setting to give you the option of accepting private messages only from users within your network. Today, I discovered a bug with the way this option is set for new users. I just wanted to let you know that the bug is now fixed, so all members are now able to receive private messages from any other member (the default setting). If you'd like to receive private messages only from users within your network, you can change this setting here. Also, you can access your privacy settings at any time from the drop-down menu that appears when you hover over your profile photo in the upper right-hand corner of the page.

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Hi Jody, we've just released a pretty big update that I think you'll be excited about. You can now see posts and updates by everyone in your network right on your own wall. Happy networking!

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