So I have been on Flickr a little over a year now. Love it. Can’t believe how it has wiggled into my daily life. Not being an overly social person when it comes to new people, I thought it a bit unnerving when strangers added me as a contact and commented on my photos. I was used to Facebook where the only people who can see what is on your page are those you have specifically let in. This ‘open access’ was a little weird for me. But I got used to it…slowly.
And then something strange happened. Some of those distant strangers (mostly in the UK) started chatting in a group page. And since I was traveling lots at the time, and staying up late, I began to chat a bit too. And slowly, somehow, I actually started to make friends with strangers. How very strange (for me anyway).
Now I am excited, because our upcoming trip to Greece will end with three and a half days in England where we plan to rent a car and zip down to Cornwall and then back along the Southern Coast before heading back inland to fly home. It will be a whirlwind trip, but the most exciting part is that we will meet some of those cyber-friends in person! About a half a dozen or so in three or four different locations! Very cool!
So Flickr is photography, but Flickr is people too! But I recently started visiting one fellow’s photostream and I can’t seem to stop visiting it. He’s a good photographer, but more than that, he’s a very interesting writer… in a really weird way…. it’s really quite fascinating to read this guys thoughts…. bored? Really, check out his writing, luckily he only posts a photo or so a day otherwise I’d never get anything done! Curious Spider