Flickr is a site that allows people to post their videos on and share photographs. It is so popular that by one month it had 7,445 photos and now it claims to have over 3 billion (
that’s three followed by nine noughts!!) images (the 3 billionth is on the right). It was created by ‘Ludicorp’, a German company that was bought by yahoo in 2005 (which meant that Flickr was theirs too). Flickr itself was launched on February 2004.
Posting photos meant that different people looked at them differently. They could start discussions about them, and photo sharing was fun and social. The photos are stored safely and stay there permanently, so if your computer crashes, the photos will still be on the web. And with Flickr you can adjust your privacy to let people see them, whether it is the whole public, family and / or friends, or maybe just yourself.
Posting photos onto Flickr is much more of an advantage than just letting them rust in their barely intact albums. And when they’re seen once, they are soon very quickly forgotten. And so it would be better if there was somewhere that you could store them where everyone can see them ... aha! Flickr! It is a great place for placing old photos of your history and I repeat that you choose who gets to see them and who doesn’t. If you just want your friends and family to see them, you can select that option. However if you want to be a bit more adventurous and want to find some honest feedback, you could chose the public option, letting anyone see and comment on your pictures.
Also, photos can be tagged and you can look these photos up. So for example if we took a picture of a lighthouse, we could tag ‘sea’, ‘harbour, ‘Portsmouth’ and ‘lighthouse’. That meant that every time we searched for ‘Portsmouth’ we would get this photo along with many others.
As you can see, Flickr is a very popular site, primarily because it is useful, fun and social. It can store photos and let other people comment on them. It is a great way of sharing your memories with those who you love, or of showing off all the fantastic holidays that you’ve been to with the reast of Flickr users.
that’s three followed by nine noughts!!) images (the 3 billionth is on the right). It was created by ‘Ludicorp’, a German company that was bought by yahoo in 2005 (which meant that Flickr was theirs too). Flickr itself was launched on February 2004.Posting photos meant that different people looked at them differently. They could start discussions about them, and photo sharing was fun and social. The photos are stored safely and stay there permanently, so if your computer crashes, the photos will still be on the web. And with Flickr you can adjust your privacy to let people see them, whether it is the whole public, family and / or friends, or maybe just yourself.
Posting photos onto Flickr is much more of an advantage than just letting them rust in their barely intact albums. And when they’re seen once, they are soon very quickly forgotten. And so it would be better if there was somewhere that you could store them where everyone can see them ... aha! Flickr! It is a great place for placing old photos of your history and I repeat that you choose who gets to see them and who doesn’t. If you just want your friends and family to see them, you can select that option. However if you want to be a bit more adventurous and want to find some honest feedback, you could chose the public option, letting anyone see and comment on your pictures.
Also, photos can be tagged and you can look these photos up. So for example if we took a picture of a lighthouse, we could tag ‘sea’, ‘harbour, ‘Portsmouth’ and ‘lighthouse’. That meant that every time we searched for ‘Portsmouth’ we would get this photo along with many others.
As you can see, Flickr is a very popular site, primarily because it is useful, fun and social. It can store photos and let other people comment on them. It is a great way of sharing your memories with those who you love, or of showing off all the fantastic holidays that you’ve been to with the reast of Flickr users.
Excellent work Alex,
ReplyDeleteThis is well written and has well chosen photos to back up what you are saying. I would have liked to see some links to back up your points as well, but otherwise, very good.
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