Flickr

Flickr is a social network which specialises in photos. Developed by Ludicorp in February 2004 Flickr in its short five year life has already collected over 3 billion photos. So lets back track a bit, how does Flickr work? I will give a brief description here; there is also a useful video below and for more information follow this link Flickr. Flickr is a free site which you can sign up too, although there is a version where you pay and you are allowed to upload an infinite amount of photos, where as with the free version you have a limit. So once you upload your photos what can you do. Well you can then arrange them into albums for example, "Holiday to America". You can then tag different things in each photo for example in a photo of the Grand Canyon with your uncle in it; you could tag Grand Canyon and Uncle. Then depending on the privacy these tags will be placed in a sort of super album where if anyone searched grand canyon then your photo would come up along with anyone else's photos which had Grand Canyon tagged in one of their pictures, that is if you had your privacy settings like that. This is the other thing about Twitter the privacy settings. Once you have uploaded a photo you can choose who sees it, and comments on it, the scale ranges from just your friends to the whole world. If you limited it to just your friends then only your friends who had Flickr and who you were friends with would be able to see the photos. So what are some of the advantages of Flickr, well it means if you have family on the other side of the world they can see how you are doing and what you are up to, and also it means you always have a saved copy of your beloved photos