Privacy is a real serious concern for me, being able to control who has access to my cyberspace galleries and communications. One of the most appealing features of Flickr is that I am able to issue a guest pass to those of my family, friends, colleagues and students who don’t have a flicker account. Even further, I am able to restrict the images that they are able to gain access to.
When I entered the world of Facebook, it wasn’t so much the appeal of the social networking but the ability to view my friend’s photos who was living overseas at the time. She had posted photos to her Facebook account and due to her privacy settings, I was only able to view them if I too had an account.
Gone is the need to join multiple social networking sites simply to view some photos. Welcome to Flickr!!
Flickr has very cleverly created a way to maintain tighter control over privacy and access issues by being able to give individual users varying degrees of access. Uploading of photos is easy and manageable. I couldn’t get over just how easy it was to do. If I had just one criticism of Flickr ... I had 10 photos that I chose to upload in the initial gallery. It did take a while longer than I would have expected. The photos were not overly large by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not sure whether it was the speed of the program, the speed of my ADSL connection, the busyness of the site or a design fault. Nevertheless, it's not a big enough complaint to keep me away. Flickr has definite usability. The real positive is that it can be done almost anywhere : mobile, email, desktop application or browser. It really can’t get much easier than this :)
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