My new (and late) passion: Flickr
20 Dec
For a long time I chose not to use Flickr, for various reasons. One of them including that I never had a Yahoo account, that wasn’t one of the ones I used for a little while forgot about and never used again. I’ve always been a Gmail user, and Google user and didn’t use Yahoo all that often. I sometimes would use Picasa from Google for the odd photo or two – mainly because it was convenient for me to use my Google account to login to Picasa. But I was viewing a few photo’s in Flickr a while back, and finally decided to try it out (I had before, but not extensively – and not consistently) and see what all the fuss was about. I had always thought of Flickr as a very 1 way – dull place where you upload your photos (or videos) and never touch them again. I was wrong, so very wrong. I’ve been using Flicker for little over a month now, consistently. I’ve become addicted to the social aspect of Flickr, it’s fun to be able to discuss photos, graphics and the odd video or two with people whom I’ve never met, or have met. I’ve spent hours just commenting and favoriting photos on Flickr.
More importantly it’s given the photos on my computer, sitting there going stale, only viewed a few times by family or friends, a new home. Which I am very happy for. Am I a late bloomer to flock to Flickr? Definitely. And is any of the information here going to be useful to anyone? Probably not, but I hope it will give a few people with the same outlook as I had on Flickr a new one. And revitalize their spirit of using Flickr for not only photo or video sharing, but as a social experience as well!
If you would like to take a look at some of my pictures on Flickr, you can go HERE or view some of the most recent uploads on the right side of the blog. :)
- Brandon Anderson
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