Life in the Network

So instead of doing my other homework for my other classes, I was so intrigued with Flickr.com that I spend way too much time looking at all the pictures. I used to use Webshots as a photo center, but I was frustrated too many times using it that it wasn’t worth it for me anymore. The picture is of my family when we went down to Alabama and Florida at the beginning of the fall semester to watch and celebrate my brother graduating from Flight School in Fort Rucker, AL. We then went to Panama City Beach for the rest of the week and enjoyed ourselves while in the sun. It was such a fun time because I love spending time with my family. I don’t get to do that much anymore because my brother is over in Germany preparing for Iraq and my sister just moved out to Jackson Hole to be a ski bum so we see each other very rarely so this trip was a lot of fun.

Like I sated before, this was my first time using Flickr and I loved it. It was a great way to view numerous different pictures using tags. As stated in Communal Categorization: The Folksonomy, “a folksonomy is the complete set of tags—one or two keywords—that users of a shared content management system apply to individual pieces of content in order to group or classify those pieces for retrieval� (Strutz, pg 1). Because of this new concept (new to me) it was much easier to find what I needed now and I will only benefit from tagging in the future. I feel as though these websites such as Flickr.com can really help people through times where a fire might destroy their home or office, or even more common there computer crashing and losing all of their photos. I, myself take way too many pictures and the thought of them destroyed makes my heart sink because you can not replace memories. However, I feel as though ANYONE would be able to look at the pictures even with the privacy setting, but it is just not this website, it is anytime that one logs onto the internet.

However, as people have already mentioned technology has really changed within the past 5 years. In my marketing class, just today we took a poll on how many people still had cameras that needed film. I was not surprised that 100% of my class had a digital camera. I feel my generation is the booming generation of the reliance on technology and I am still in the process of transferring and accommodating to my parents as well who didn’t really hop on the bandwagon for digital cameras. I still like to be able to grasp my pictures, show whomever and be able to add a few comments or stories about each picture and with online photo albums, it takes that togetherness away.