Flickr is one of those sites you will have heard about even if you've never been there, like FaceBook, Amazon, MySpace, and ladieswithwhips.com.
I went there, and imagine my astonishment when I realized that I at some point had created an account, with head shot and everything, and never used it. Not only that, but thirty-seven people had searched on my name on Flickr! And not found any photos. Whattawaste.
So I have uploaded some. I must admit, the photo uploader app they give you is a fokload easier and faster to use than adding images to Blogger or my own site.
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Fokload? Lol, that's got to be the greatest word ever. I'm gonna have to start using that.
I avoided Flickr for the longest time, used my own PHP photo album. But whenI switched servers, something broke in the database and I couldn't be bothered to fix it. I switched to Flickr and have been pretty pleased with it ever since. :)
I don't get it. Why would one want to publish photos on Flickr rather than on one's own web site?
Why promote Flickr when instead you could have people link to your site? None of these services without a real business model will last long. When Flickr disappears you lose all the links.
Some say the idea is in the "social networking" aspect of these services. Well, create a page called "friends" and list your friends there. Duh! That is what we have done for 15 years.
MySpace would like us to only have friends inside their service. Same for Facebook. And Flickr. And a dozen wannabes. How long do you think this fad will last? I predict no longer than next spring.
To stay alive at all, they will have to open up like right now. And after they do that the whole point about them disappears. They are just poorly designed homepage generators.
Well, as I got used to say: Flickr makes me go a rubbery one.
I like Flickr for its vast database and the possibility to search for special items using the "tag" tool. So I've managed to save some very nice pictures of everything, including ladies (not only nude, but also well-dressed).
Flickr has been in existence for quite a while now, the searching tools are excellent, and it's a good way to learn about people.
And I also believe it's easier to handle than blogger.
TTL, though I see your point, Flickr is not going away. Hotmail is still around, and it has even less of a business model.
These sites are for people who don't know how to make a site, and who don't care to find out.
And I must admit, though I've been doing it for years, I still think it's a bit of a chore to make a new gallery on my site.
Beeb is right, Flickr is good for finding for example, sample photos from a particular lens or camera.
Well, maybe Flickr has more of a point then, than MySpace for example, since it's built around a "niche" of sorts, i.e. photos. But then, there have been countless photo hosting sites in the past. Popular ones too. We don't even remember their names anymore.
"And I must admit, though I've been doing it for years, I still think it's a bit of a chore to make a new gallery on my site."
There are readily made scripts one can run to automate things. Granted, setting them up may require some "hacker attitude". But some web hosting providers may have these installed as standard feature.
By the way, Hotmail is only around because Microsoft owns it. They paid $400 million for it and don't want to admit to themselves that they purchased a very expensive turkey.
Don't bother trying to explain anything to that dick ttl. He just uses any excuse to try to put down anyone less nerdy than himself - it's a nerd's revenge on the people who terrorized the dickless fuck when he was younger.
I must be really out of touch, because I had not heard of Flickr until now. However, I did spend the last decade in a cave on Mars, with my fingers in my ears.
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