Thursday, April 3, 2008
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Flickr is a photo sharing website, which is owned by Yahoo company. People can post their photos for free and in the same time the visitors can make some comments on the photos. This connects people together in different places of the world. One of the features of Flickr is that people must indicate the place where the photo has been taken. Then, photos are classified efficiently and systematically, which is the advantage of using Flickr. Therefore, people can search the photos they like quickly and conveniently. After I searched in flickr, I enjoyed searching in it very much because I saw something I have never seen before and it widens my sight. As we discussed in class, people can keep their privacy in Flickr by choosing to view the photos for certain groups or sharing with everyone. It is good for users on protecting their privacy. My opinion is that we cannot control people to use your things that are posted on web, but you can choose not to post it. There are no law can totally protect our privacy. It is too difficult to define it and judge the problem of invading privacy especially in this new century with advanced technology. Therefore, we just behave ourselves in norm when we are staying out in the public. We can do nothing on it so we just take it easy.
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I think the collaboration between the Library of Congress and Flickr is a great thing. Now anyone from anywhere can have access to the collection of great images stored at the Library of Congress and people can comment and share what they think and know about the images. This of course does not mean everyone can use these images for their own purpose with out the permission of the Library of Congress. Even though these images are on Flickr's site they are still owned by the Library of Congress.
In class we had a debate. Professor had ask our class a question: is it need apply a permission for using people's pictures in Flicker? I think you don't have to...because that is your chice to put them on public.
sometime your privacy is exposed, it might be a best way to restrict your action.
Flickr sounds like an excellent place to place photos on the internet. There are plenty of reasons that people want to put their picture on flichr, ranging from wanting an increase in popularity or even to become notorious. Those are the two extremes but flickr is good when you want to see a places you haven't been to or look at world artifacts. Its great if you are studying or researching certain information for papers and you need a picture to help you decipher some information. Sounds like congress did a good job posting their congressional pictures even if they did not put a caption on them. What I like the most about flickr is the fact that anyone can post a comment on anyones picture, which many people can read and add their own opinion.
Flickr and Youtube are similar online communities. People post and share their pictures on Flickr and videos on Youtube with each other. At the very beginning, not many people will think about the issue of privacy when share things with their friends and strangers at the same time on the internet, until some serious consequences occurred. People start to wondering, is it safe to post their very personal information online to the public? Because it is possible for some other people to steal that information and do something else to it, you just never know. Such as send it all around the world and make fun of it or spreading them in blogs without the first person’s permission. Only thing I can suggest to it is that people now should really have better understanding the possible consequences that will cause by posting things online. It is a free world, while you are free, so are others.
i think its very convenient how flickr organizes the pictures on it. it makes finding whatever you are looking for very easy to find.
Flickr is a website to post your pictures and share with different people. Once you want to put your pictures on the internet, it lost the privacy. It also provides a chance for some people to copy or Photoshop those pictures. However, it is educated and I believe most people think is a way of entertainment. I only recommend that people should put some cleaned pictures…LOL
I agree with what Hugo said. I don't think that you should need the person's permission to use their pictures from Flickr because they posted it to a public website. However, sometimes I think that they should let the person know that they are using the picture, for example if you are using for the cover of a book.
I think flickr is a resourceful tool. Not only can you see pictures of exotic places and other interesting things but you can post comments on anyone of those pictures. In regards to privacy being able to post comments no matter who you are without having to have special clearance might be a negative thing. However i think it is just one drawback vs. the many positive aspects of flickr.
flicker is such a good site to watch pictures of others all around the world. This site is really good for those kind of natural pictures, such as parks,dogs,cats...ect. But, in my opinion, it is not good for my own pictures, i can add to flicker my dog's pictures but not my picture, because it will be seen by the public. Therefore, any one can see it and add a comment on it which is not a good thing for me.I donot care about my dog's pictures if someone saw it or made a comment on it. Thats why this site is not used in the same way by everyone.
flicker is such a good site to watch pictures of others all around the world. This site is really good for those kind of natural pictures, such as parks,dogs,cats...ect. But, in my opinion, it is not good for my own pictures, i can add to flicker my dog's pictures but not my picture, because it will be seen by the public. Therefore, any one can see it and add a comment on it which is not a good thing for me.I donot care about my dog's pictures if someone saw it or made a comment on it. Thats why this site is not used in the same way by everyone.
flicker can be very useful because we can see many pictures of places around the world. I personally like it because Im taking a photograph class and when you take a picture you want to share it and this is the purpose of this website. With flickr you can share moments with friends and family members easier. But like any of this communities we have to be careful with what we post and think of the consequences of doing it.
I with both hugo and melody that if you put something for everyone to see, its not private anymore. If you want your pics to be safe and used only by you and a couple of your friends or family members, dont put it online.Keep it in an album or in your computer, but do not share it with public.
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