Sayonara Yahoo! photos, Hello Flickr?
Good old Yahoo! photos is closing it’s doors in just a few days. All Yahoo users have the option to download all their photos, or migrate to Yahoo! owned Flickr. I may be one of the last users of the traditional Yahoo! photos, but any site that is geriatric approved [note: my mother can understand it] deserves some appreciation. Sure it wasn’t all web 2.0 fantastic, but it was easy to use. As everyone and their dog now has a online photo blog, I am thinking it’s time to join the masses. Not to say that I haven’t been there before…
I still remember the first time I danced around joining Flickr. I was in college, it wasn’t owned by Yahoo, and I was looking for a way to share high res pics with my chums. Flickr seemed to be the only alternative at the time, though the page format seemed confusing to me. After all, it was one of the first sites to use the Web 2.0 module. In any case, I was turned off by it and stuck with what I had;Yahoo!, TextAmerica, and Webshots.
While in college, I stuck up random streams of images on my Textamerica Moblog. I got bored and creeped out by that site [hello stalkers], so I tried out Webshots my last two years at Cal. As a free service for a few pictures, it worked well. After a while, I lost interest in posting pictures, perhaps because of the lack of community and boring interface.
Alas, I never really found a place to settle on photo sharing. Sure there is SmugMug, Zooomr, and a bunch of vowel-lacking photo sharing sites.Somewhere in between creepy TextAmerica and snoozy Webshots, there has to be a happy medium and a place where I feel like I belong. Is Flickr the missing link? Should I give it another shot?
I LOVE Flickr. I have a paid account there so I can upload as much as I’d like. I can also upload nicely large images. LOL! If only Flickr did video clips too! ;) But otherwise it’s a great site for photos and sharing those photos. I like how I can do totally private sets and just share with my family and friends. I also like how easy it is to upload my cameraphone shots…
Give it a shot!
It was only a matter of time. I love flickr times a billion. Haven’t quite seen anything better so far.
Flickr is pretty awesome for what it does. It has been facing problems in the recent days but I have been a paid user since 2 years now and it is my online backup for all my photos.
Zooomr looks like a great alternative. But I cannot move to it coz all my friends are on Flickr and we have our own little community there.
Neha - I’m probably going to regret asking this, but… what age range is your mom in for geriatric approval… Scratch that, I _know_ I’m going to regret asking that haha