'What Is Flickr?' Question Flummoxes Folks on the Street
Posted Nov 6th 2009 2:39PM by Switched Staff
We'll admit that, as tech journalists, we live in a bit of a self-imposed bubble when it comes to Internet goings-on. ("What do you mean, 'You've never heard of a meme?' ") So we decided to take our cameras to the streets of New York and descend upon the less compulsively-geeky masses to ask, "What is Flickr?"
Though the image-sharing behemoth Flickr -- now millions of users strong -- celebrated its 4 billionth photo upload last month, we apparently confused a fair-sized cross-section of people walking through Times Square. But all was not lost: despite the fact that some couldn't tell us "what the Flickr is," we mercifully found some of our own ilk, from teens to more mature passerbys, to legitimize our inherently techy career focus. (Mom, Dad, we're doing powerful important work, here.)
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Subscribe to commentsrpsant486Nov 9th 2009 1:11PM
Laura Lynn - I love your old-fashion-osity!-You ROCK!! (You are the SWELLest!!)
TrochNov 9th 2009 1:17PM
TextAmerica.com was the first photo sharing site I used. Then Picasa and Flickr at about the same time. It's way too tedious and unnecessary for everyone to know of every site. They come and go so quickly I even hesitate to spend too much time
Matthew ZurasNov 9th 2009 1:34PM
What is factually inaccurate about this post, exactly?
reinafireNov 9th 2009 1:51PM
I know what Flicker is and if they'd asked me I would have known. But if they had asked, "Do you know what THE Flicker is?" I would've taken a second longer cause it's not THE Flicker it's simply FLICKER.
Leila BrillsonNov 9th 2009 2:00PM
Yeah, where aren't we doing our research?