This new social media craze is amazing! For a class assignment I had to find out how to use Flickr. I've heard of the site before but never really knew much about it. I just thought it was another way to have an online photo album that you can share with friends(sound familiar???...Facebook).
Now, I'm a regular guy who doesn't like things to be too complicated or fancy. I don't have a smart phone and the only reason I have a Twitter account was because it was mandatory for a class. To me, Facebook is combination of Twitter and Flickr. So why would I want to open an account just for pictures? That question was answered when I took the tutorial on the Flickr homepage.
The similarities to Zuckerberg's cash cow are unavoidable because there is only so much you can do with uploading, tagging, and commenting on pictures. But, two features that made all the difference with me are the note adding and pin point location features.
What if you have a picture with three friends laughing and one friend in the background with a straight face? On any other site you can add captions below the picture to try and explain the situation. With the note adding feature you can put a word box on the actual photo as if each person was speaking. I think that can help tell the story of what really went on in the picture, almost like a live comic strip.
The pin point location feature can come in handy for PR firms when they take pictures at their events. When uploading pictures to your Flickr page you can tag friends as well as the place where the picture was taken. On the side there is an option to click a map and type in a city or address and drag the picture over that specific spot so you can actually show people where you were when you took it. Back to the PR firm and their successful event, if I wanted to know where the grand opening of the new restaurant was I could just see the map of its location behind the picture.
Like I said, I'm not a complicated guy but at the end of my virtual tour of the site I was impressed enough to go ahead and create an account for me. My Flickr
Since you've showed this cool new site, I've used it three times already. Previously, I would use photobucket, but I hate that there is so many steps. Now with Flickr its only a couple of things to do. I use it with my Twitter and Facebook accounts, without the headache
ReplyDelete-Shanley McCray
Brian,
ReplyDeleteThank you for introducing me to Flickr. Before you presented this cool digital site I didn't know that it existed. After class I went home and created my own Flickr account. I love the fact that I can comment on the pictures, and explain to people what it really takeing place in the photograph. The geo tagging feature is also a fun feature to use. Flickr is easily my favorite new website.
Thanks,
Keith Blue