Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Flickr

Bah!  I did not like using Flickr!  First thing's first, it really irritated me that I had to create a Yahoo account to even get started reviewing anything within the program.  I did not have a Yahoo account until this point and I will likely delete my account after the need for Flickr is gone.

That being said, it was easy enough to add photos to Flickr; the download agent simply allows the user to drag and drop their pictures to be uploaded.  It was easy enough to view the pictures I had downloaded, but I had to do some investigating to see how to tag them and to find how to review the other images with the same tags.  I did not see this as being very new user friendly but then, I am not used to this software because I usually do not have a need for it.  When I did find out how to search for the tags noted in my photos, it came out with thousands of images.  All three of my images were tagged with Web 2.0; in addition, one was tagged with Collective Intelligence, and one was also tagged with user control.  If this was something more concentrated, I imagine I could be lost looking at photos all day - as I have done numerous times within the world of Pinterest - but with such a broad spectrum and anything tagged with anything, I feel I could have just Googled the tag words and received a better, focused, group of images.

~Christina

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