Week 4--Flickr

Being forced to learn about 23 Things (or 5 so far) has been so helpful and actually quite fun. I appreciate the scheduled time off the desk to learn.

I vaguely knew what Flickr was but thought it was used mainly by fancy photographers.

Now I see that you can make your account as private or public as you want. You can use it as a safe place to store family photos in case your computer or CDs are damaged or destroyed. It's like a back-up that you can share with whoever you want to!

I was trying to think of some uses--e.g. I am the caretaker of a lot of old photos from my husband's family. We could put them on Flickr and share with other family members. We also have some old christening gowns with crocheted lace. We could photograph them and share with family, as well.

My last name, W-------, is extremely rare. The family is Swedish, but it must be a "made-up" name since there is no "W" in the Swedish alphabet. Most people with the name in the U.S. or Canada are related to us, altho there are quite a few others listed in the Stockholm phone book.

I typed W------- in Flickr "search" and found photos of a Swedish young lady named Marie, a nice looking young man named Eric who is probably my husband's nephew and some old sepia toned army photos, labelled in French, showing someone named Ralph W------- from Montreal performing.

It gave me some idea of all the interesting things I could turn up in Flickr now that I understand a little bit more about how it works.