Flickr Review

     Before the creation of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, there was a very popular photo-sharing and hosting service known as Flickr. Although there are many photo-sharing sites, none is easier to use than Flickr. Flickr allows users to upload and share their favorite photos free of charge, while offering many cool features such as tagging, creating albums, gathering statistics about their photos, etc. (Lowensohn, 2008). Another feature that impressed me was the fact that Flickr offer users a whole terabyte of space to upload photos – that is about two million photos!!! (Apple.com, 2012).

     The tagging system not only allowed me to tag my photos as a way of classifying them in the right categories, but it also allows users to find such categories. For instance, I tagged one of my photos as ‘social learning’ and when later searched for that category the search came back with a total of 98, 717 such photos. This is very useful for any user looking for particular information, whether for entertainment or for that very important presentation. In other words, Flickr is very user friendly and I can see many uses besides the standard uploading and sharing of photos.

     Before the creation of this review I personally did not know much about Flickr. Nevertheless, the ease of use of it was a very pleasing surprise. I was able to upload, tag, create an album, change the name and description of my photos without any trouble at all because all the editing options were located on the same location and were easy to find. But if any users were to have any problem the Help section contains a vast amount of Frequently Asked Questions that will pretty much answer anything about Flickr. I must that this hosting site has earned my respect as an easy way to maintain, share and backup my photos. After all, one cannot have too many backups.

     The following is the link to my Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/135783684@N04/.

References

Apple.com. (2012). How many photographs will 1TB hard drive hold? Retrieved August 25, 2015, from http://www.apple.com/shop/question/answers/readonly/how-many-photographs-will-1tb-hard-drive-hold/QTD4TH7TJ7TX4UXH9

Lowensohn, J. (2008). Newbie’s guide to Flickr. Retrieved August, 25, 2015, from http://www.cnet.com/news/newbies-guide-to-flickr/