So I've finally found my way into the wonderful world of Flickr. And much like the frog people from Redick's The Redwolf Conspiracy, it has kidnapped me off the street and conscripted me to a voyage around the world - on an ocean of photos! Part of me rebels at the haphazard nature of organization on Flickr - it takes some thought before uploading pictures at the beginning as to how one wants to organize things. I found it difficult to edit my tags once I'd uploaded the picture, and being prone to typos, this is no small consideration. But overall, I'll be spending way too much time with this tool, if only to look at some of the amazing photos friends and strangers have put up. I'll also be using it for work, possibly in conjunction with the Teen Facebook page, certainly as a means of storage for work-related photos - this way I can work on MCPL projects at home with easy access to pictures, and not have to worry about transferring photos from the Adult Services drive at work onto a flash drive before I leave for the day.
One word about Flickr's promotion of their service as an online backup for personal photos, and my response t0 all online storage issues - yeah, it's nice for now, but who knows in 5 or 10 years? Companies and sites get bought, sold, modified, and shut down regularly. I'm not trusting my visual memories to that kind of business-dependent future. Not to say I won't be putting stuff up there, but I'll also be doing the real backup of my photos (as of all my documents, music, etc.) on an external hard drive kept in a separate location. Cause I'm paranoid like that.
But hooray Flickr for making it all so easy to share!
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