A Brief Digression, Social Media

I Miss the Flickr Community

After being at the Spredfast Summit 2015 for a few days I had moved into “OK, now let’s write about what I heard” mode. I had taken a few photos but wanted more. So I went to Flickr… and was almost immediately disappointed.

There was nothing there for any of the related searches I ran aside from the pictures I was sharing myself. This is in stark contrast to several years ago when conferences like this would be fresh fodder for Flickr, with people posting photos there throughout the event. You’d be able to practically relive the entire event and see things you missed by searching through photos other people had taken.

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I know Instagram is here now, but it’s…not the same. There isn’t the sense on Instagram of building an archive. It’s all about the right now. While you can search on Instagram – including by hashtags – you can’t then take someone’s whole gallery of photos from a single album and embed them elsewhere. There just isn’t the sense of portability, which is missing from many social networks these days but which used to be a standard feature of the first social platforms.  

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