Life in the Network

From left to right it’s Beth, Jackie, and then me! The three of us have been best friends going on 12 years. We enjoy hanging out, shopping, watching movies, and traveling. For the past 5 years we’ve been going on a trip in March for a week, and this year the plan is to go to Miami, Florida, which will be nice to get out of this cold Minnesota weather for a while!!

Flickr is definitely something new to me. However, it was very user friendly. There were no problems uploading the pictures. Sometimes programs like this can be very technical and give you no directions on how to set up an account; this was not the case with Flickr. I will probably continue to use Flickr to organize the millions of pictures I have stored on my digital camera that I haven’t done anything with.

Folksonomies in general help individuals organize content and allow them to store them in various folders by using a system of classifying. It’s also a convenient way to save time and money for development. The user can send pictures to family and friends via email and save money on the cost to print the picture as well as the postage to get it to them. This is yet another great reminder of how the advancement of technology, in particular the Internet, has simplified the way of doing something.

However, I do see how some individuals might be a little torn and reluctant about such interactive sites such as Flickr. Laura Gurak, in chapter two discusses privacy and states, “ The more interactive a site, the greater the potential for privacy problems.� (46). From what I could tell, you can put just about anything on the Internet now of days for just about everyone to view. Thus, do folksonomy sites have regulations about what can and cannot be posted?