Flickr is like Instagram on Steroids!

Some of us took up the Flickr challenge posted by Dr Dennen, I decided to explore Flickr a little bit more and found that it kind of resembles Instagram but on STEROIDS! Based on my previous blog post on how Instagram works, the pros and cons of it (http://ernestlearning6414.blogspot.com/2016/07/instagram.html), I found that Flickr has a few features that are similar to Instagram and both are tools that allow users to upload pictures. As I have mentioned in my previous post, Instagram only works with a smartphone but Flickr works on both medium i.e. smartphone and computer. 

The thing about Flickr is that you can organize your pictures into various albums or categories, you can join different groups of people who are interested in things like nature photography or anything that are of interest to you.

For Instagram, you can only follow people but there are no groups that you can join other than viewing images based on the hashtags! I guess this groups joining feature that Flickr offers is really good! It just provides us with a more organized way of viewing the pictures that are of interest to us. You can comment and like the images, there are also discussion groups / forums within each interest group!! This is really awesome! Apart from viewing the pictures, liking it and post a few comments, you can create threads and talk about the images or techniques in taking those pictures etc! It's pretty cool!

If you are avid photographer and traveler, you can even provide detailed specifications on how you took those pictures and where did you take them!! And shared it with everyone on Flickr! I thought this is a good way to keep a photography or travel journals pretty much like visual/image blogging!

I like how Flickr allows us to organize our pictures, which Instagram doesn't offer such feature! This is an awesome tool!