Pose For The Camera: Flickr Flickr Flickr

Welcome to another week of my rambling on about my awesome web 2.0 experiences! This week I tried something fairly new by going on the photo sharing site Flickr...it wasn't my first time on the site... sort of...
As the story goes, a month or so ago when I wanted to try and raise the number of people who read my piddly little blog, I decided to go on a "major" social media attack and join every relevant site and post content there. I'd vaguely heard of a site called Flickr and figured that if it were anything like Instagram then I should probably join. As I was entering in my old Yahoo id (that I had to reset because, well...who still uses Yahoo?) my two in-house social media experts (my teenaged daughters) came downstairs to see what the hold up for dinner was and asked what I was doing. When I told them, they immediately laughed and informed me that "nobody" used Flickr.
Of course we all know that isn't true but their looks of disapproval were enough to convince me to abandon the site and start on dinner...soon Flickr was forgotten...until this week.
When I saw the assignment I immediately went to the site and noticed that it was visually beautiful! The images on the homepage were all professional looking and just...gorgeous. I felt a little out of place on the site since I'm not a professional photographer and wouldn't know good lighting if it smacked me in the face. All of that being said, I had an assignment to do so I was gonna do it, even if my content isn't as visually stunning as everyone else.
The negotiation of the site was a little confusing and I actually referred back to the embedded video in the classroom a time or two to kind of get the hang of where to click to start uploading content to post. I uploaded 5 pictures (I'm an overachiever...lol)
but had to go back because I messed up and only one of the images ended up in the album(?)...not really sure how I did that but...I fixed it.

Tagging the images was pretty easy and I was actually surprised at the number of images tagged with some of the result of checking how many images were tagged in the same ways as I chose...

There are 6,886 Images with the tag "Will Ferrell

Believe it or not: There are 394,143 images tagged "Donuts"!

Not surprising there are 1,118,133 images tagged "Social Media"

There are 50,807 images tagged "Pros & Cons"

"Tumblr" is the big winner with 3,732,188 tags! 

All in all, I'd say I had a pretty positive experience with Flickr however I really don't see it as a site that I'll visit all that often. I guess I just like my social media a little more "social" and since most of my friends and family are using Instagram and Snapchat (I'm still trying to figure it out) that's what I'd be more likely to use (once I get it figured out)...

Take care all!