{"id":2563,"date":"2010-03-07T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2010-03-07T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T10:30:12","slug":"sickr-flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/sickr-flickr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sickr Flickr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr fans may want to give this post a wide berth, although what I am bitching about isn&#8217;t exactly the fault of the good folk at Flickr, well I don&#8217;t think it is.<\/p>\n<p>I can recall a day when I used to love to join in discussions in Flickr groups. They were helpful, informative, funny, controversial and a pleasure to be a part of. The last 12 months have seen things slide like a eel on a Teflon slippery dip. I don&#8217;t know if it is the groups I had joined, or all groups are suffering from the same general decline in the social aspect. In the past 3 weeks I have left 4 groups that I had been a member for for nearly the whole time I have been a part of the extended Flickr family. These groups were once like immediate family. You knew the other members well. You even socialised with them.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I left each group was the same. It was less like a group of friends with a shared passion, and more like a bunch of teenage boys for ever trying to prove who had the biggest dick, which is terrific if you are an angsty acne sufferer with a backwards baseball cap, but less fun than a prostrate exam (this is supposition on my behalf, my back door has not yet seen a doctors gloved finger approaching)\u00a0 for a 40 plus cranky bastard like myself. I miss the chit chat, the sharing of links to interesting photographic gold nuggets. I miss the willingness to share advice, experiences and equipment. I miss the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">friendly<\/span> banter.<\/p>\n<p>What has happened? I was going to point the finger at all the different types of Flickr user that piss me off, but I can&#8217;t see that doing anyone any good at all. Me sitting here whinging and ranting will no more fix things than if I could clone a pig to an eagle and finally stop people telling me I will take a great photo when pigs fly.<\/p>\n<p>So, I ask you, dear visitor, is it just me? Have you found similar happenings on your travels around Flickr groups?<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m off to find an eagle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"That'll do pig by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/2379337939\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3278\/2379337939_15aff56ae2.jpg\" alt=\"That'll do pig\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr fans may want to give this post a wide berth, although what I am bitching about isn&#8217;t exactly the fault of the good folk at Flickr, well I don&#8217;t think it is. I can recall a day when I used to love to join in discussions in Flickr groups. 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