Some users are either enjoying, or freaking out over their photo streams having photos from other people in them.
Personally it is kinda fun to see what random photos come into a stream, but then you read comments like:
- “YOU NEED TO TAKE THE SITE OFFLINE — there is all kinds of freaking porn in my photostream now; I have family members (inc. children) who look at my stream. I am sure there are many others in the same boat. This sucks.”
- “I am and I’m freaking out – this is my business portfolio site “
And I quickly realised that this is an issue.
I think we will run into this more as we move our world from our own websites/just on a PC to global services.
Ironically, I just started to put more of my photos on Flickr. I used to use JAlbum and would generate webpages which I would then sftp up to an area on my website.
I wanted to use Flickr to enable my wife to upload easier (right now the process is a bit too much and is only on my machine). The only downside has been that it is a pain to share photos with family. On my own site I could put the personal pics behind an HTTP Basic directory and pass out the username/password to anyone who cares. With Flickr I need to invite everyone in the family and they need to signup to be able to see things. A bit of a pain. That being said, I love the tools and when I want to share photos to the outside world it is a no-brainer.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
A recent feature added to Flickr is guest passes.
You can put your photos in a set and then generate a guest pass (”unguessable” URL) that you can send to family members.
Not a superb solution, but a workable alternative.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Yes,
I did that the first time, but having to do it each time was a pain :)
Cheers,
Dion
February 18th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Flickr mixing up photos is definitely an issue. Both for professionals and for casual uses who do not like to get ball sack instead of rail track
http://www.bbwindow.com/2007/america/flickr_photo_pools_hack.html
The only upsides? It seemed to be only a Flickr Pool issue and they apparently fixed it already.
February 18th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I think you can just give a guest pass for a set and just put all your photos in that set and it will work retroactively. That will at least make it easier. But really, who doesn’t have a Yahoo login??? :)
February 18th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Not a bad idea (just using one set).
Some of my family members baren’t have a modem let alone a Yahoo! ID :)
Dion