Flickr Bites the Weenie
July 7th, 2006
You know what? Flickr can BITE ME! I joined the stupid site under duress, after hearing EVERYONE sing it’s praises.
“Flickr is so cool!” “Flickr is so easy!” “Flickr is so FUN!”
You know what I have to say? All of my friends that like this site are CRAZY. For the first week, I was fine with the site. Then, I discovered the truth - the site is only cool/easy/fun if you’ll pay for it. Call me a cheap jerk, but I fail to see why I should pay for a service I can get for FREE on a million other sites. So, I stuck with just using the free service, and gave up on organizing my photos into albums, or setting the order in which they appear. I figured that using Flickr was still easier than emailing pictures to friends - they could just download them from Flickr, and everything would be fine. But THEN I discovered that there were other problems with not paying for Flickr. Namely, they delete your pictures.
I got an email from DDD this morning, asking “Where are the pictures from when you won the fantasy football championship?!?!?!?!?! I can’t find them on Flickr and I NEED THEM!!!!” So, I logged into Flickr to see what the deal was… and they’re gone. In fact, all but my last 200 photos are GONE. The tags are even gone! I did not receive ANY notification of this - no warning that I was approaching some limit, or that my pictures would not be on my page anymore. So you know what?
Flickr and I are DONE. I’m going back to Snapfish to make albums, and will use the FABULOUS Picasa to keep emailing out photos. Google - hurry up and start competing with Flickr!
In other, non-pissed-off news, I’m going back to California until the 17th, so I won’t be around here to entertain you. So… have a great week! See you later!
fuck flicker.
i agree.
I think u should contact flickr about this! Flickr is better than the other sites because it’s easier to navaigate, look at fotos, grab links to fotos, etc. Sorry to hear about this though!
Not everyone has a snapfish account, etc. and I thnk $20 is a small price to pay for unlimited bandwidth.
What?? not fair.
Google has two things you can use: Picasa and Gmail. Gmail gives you like a bazillion gigs of memory so you can store all your stuff, and Picasa is the photo organizer program. Not quite like Snapfish, but not as annoying as Flickr. Lemme know if you need a Gmail invite.
Fuck Flickr in the ear.
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