Flickr

The topic we talked about in class this week was organizations in the tool that went along with this topic was Flickr. What Flickr is a site that allows people from anywhere to post pictures I certain topic and also allows people to comment on any picture they want to. Well technology has changed the way we can join an organization in Flickr allows you to do that and also they have a bunch of organizations they can join and then you can post pictures that relate to that organization and people can comment on the pictures that relate with the organization that you joined. Organizations have many different levels from top dog, middle-class and lower class well with Flickr I think every organization is just on one level.

The tool Flickr like I restated earlier allows people to post pictures randomly or to an organization that they have join or create your own group to have people join and have allowed people to comment on the pictures that they have uploaded on Flickr. What Flickr allows you to do as well is create a profile on yourself and it allows you to tell people what things that are your favorite or interesting to you. This also shows other people on Flickr that you also may have something’s in common with that other person. So this site is just another way social network with people but in the way of showing pictures of many different things that people like about an organization or a business.

The site Flickr to me was a pretty interesting site because of the different groups that I can join and also some pictures that people put up in the site as well. Even when we did that activity after the organization presentation and put up pictures about a business called big box and then a day later I get comments from other people saying that I heard of this company and this company has a lot of competitors involved. So to me that was pretty cool to hear people voice their opinion on the pictures that I uploaded to Flickr. Also looking at other photos that people have uploaded from the bad hurricane Sandy that devastated the East Coast and to see all the people going to the damage of what's left of their home was eye-opening to me in the pictures that I look at.

The thing that I found the most challenging about Flickr is not a lot of my friends use Flickr as a social networking tool. So it was tough interacting with people on the website. Also some of the groups that I tried joining were kind of weird and not right for me. What also I thought about Flickr is that I think Flickr is just copying YouTube in uploading videos and sharing it with anybody that is on Flickr and think that's wrong in Flickr should with their own way on putting up videos and stuff like that. Until Flickr becomes more popular and get more people to join it will be challenging for people to navigate the site.

The things that Flickr needs to do to make it a better experience is not just allow people to upload photos and comment on them they need to allow people to create status like they do on Face book and also chat with people on Flickr as well. This way you can get more interaction with pictures and chatting with people in uploaded the pictures to make it better communication and also a better experience.

I thought my experience with Flickr went okay. I enjoyed looking at the cool pictures that people posted especially the ones from the East Coast from hurricane Sandy to see how much damage was caused from the storm. I also joined a few groups of things that I could do and follow specially and sports. But I wish I had more friends of mine use Flickr then it would have been a better experience for me to enjoy but I still thought it was a cool website to navigate through.