my friend flickr.
I'm sure someone out in comments land is going to fill me in, but I don't really see the advantage of flickr right now. Yes, I get that you can make your pictures available to everyone else on the site, can browse others' pictures, and can know when they've added more or whatever. I get that you can link them to "tags" or keywords or whatever and have them be indexed with a humongosaurus group of similar photos. I GET IT.
So it's a pairing of social networking and photography. Okay. Great. Awesome. COOL.
Only, I'm not going to join. And for those of you who are pestering me to, you can stop now. I'm not succumbing to the peer pressure, and it's not gonna happen. All my images are available on this site and that should be enough. I don't need another place to upload them to.
Don't bother arguing with me that it's easier for you to see my pictures if they're on flickr. If you can get to flickr's site, you can get to mine. Don't tell me that makes two sites to go to instead of one, or with flickr everyone's pictures are available for you in one central location. There's another thing out there; it's called RSS. Do you want me to make my pictures available through an RSS feed? Because I will. Then you won't have to go to any website to see them; they'll come to you. Ooh. And that technology has been around for years already.
Another thought that passes through my mind as I'm writing this - some of your photos suck. I'm sorry, but I don't want to see them. So why would I want to join a site that crams EVERY photo from EVERY friend/acquaintance/account I join into my eye sockets? I like this format where if I want to see your photo, I'll find it. That way I see only the photos I'm interested in seeing. Plus, I always thought my photos fit into the suck category, so I don't really want to cram mine down your eye socket either.
It's funny how quickly after I've uploaded my photos people are telling me they've seen them. It's often in the space of hours. You know what? They didn't have any special software to do that. They didn't need to sign in to any special website. I didn't even email them to let them know they're there. They somehow found them anyway.
(By the way, I'm flattered, but really, don't you have anything better to do than to check my site that often? They'll be there next week.)
While I've been known to check out other passing fads now and then (friendster, myspace, orkut, meetup, okcupid, yahoo, yahoo messenger, yahoo chat, plazes, tetris, the sims, blogexplosion, albino black sheep, those mice, that chair-dancing kid, amazon, microsoft...) for the momentary interest or fun, I'm no longer jumping on every bandwagon that rolls into town. Sure, it's some cool photography-related social network that allows you to see your friends photos, but that's all it is - just another social network. I guess I'm just getting bored with those.
listening to: beatles, john lennon, george harrison... yeah my ipod loves the beatles.
in my sink: a bowl, a spoon, a cup, a plate, pizza sauce.
So it's a pairing of social networking and photography. Okay. Great. Awesome. COOL.
Only, I'm not going to join. And for those of you who are pestering me to, you can stop now. I'm not succumbing to the peer pressure, and it's not gonna happen. All my images are available on this site and that should be enough. I don't need another place to upload them to.
Don't bother arguing with me that it's easier for you to see my pictures if they're on flickr. If you can get to flickr's site, you can get to mine. Don't tell me that makes two sites to go to instead of one, or with flickr everyone's pictures are available for you in one central location. There's another thing out there; it's called RSS. Do you want me to make my pictures available through an RSS feed? Because I will. Then you won't have to go to any website to see them; they'll come to you. Ooh. And that technology has been around for years already.
Another thought that passes through my mind as I'm writing this - some of your photos suck. I'm sorry, but I don't want to see them. So why would I want to join a site that crams EVERY photo from EVERY friend/acquaintance/account I join into my eye sockets? I like this format where if I want to see your photo, I'll find it. That way I see only the photos I'm interested in seeing. Plus, I always thought my photos fit into the suck category, so I don't really want to cram mine down your eye socket either.
It's funny how quickly after I've uploaded my photos people are telling me they've seen them. It's often in the space of hours. You know what? They didn't have any special software to do that. They didn't need to sign in to any special website. I didn't even email them to let them know they're there. They somehow found them anyway.
(By the way, I'm flattered, but really, don't you have anything better to do than to check my site that often? They'll be there next week.)
While I've been known to check out other passing fads now and then (friendster, myspace, orkut, meetup, okcupid, yahoo, yahoo messenger, yahoo chat, plazes, tetris, the sims, blogexplosion, albino black sheep, those mice, that chair-dancing kid, amazon, microsoft...) for the momentary interest or fun, I'm no longer jumping on every bandwagon that rolls into town. Sure, it's some cool photography-related social network that allows you to see your friends photos, but that's all it is - just another social network. I guess I'm just getting bored with those.
listening to: beatles, john lennon, george harrison... yeah my ipod loves the beatles.
in my sink: a bowl, a spoon, a cup, a plate, pizza sauce.
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