Posted on August 30, 2006
The Power of Social Media and Flickr
BY JENNIFER EUBANKS
Social Media is not just a buzzword floating around the internet, it's an actual social phenomenon.
Don't believe me?
A mere 24 hours after announcing the new ability to geotag your photos with the location in which they were taken, a reported 1,234,384 photos were already tagged. The number is now well over 1.6 million, and will surely grow as the word continues to spread and new photos are added.
Flickr is one of the easiest, most intuitive, and popular social media sites currently on the web. It provides users with the things they care about most--storing and sharing photos, and community. It also helps that with the implementation of this new geotagging feature, Flickr has made it extremely easy to go back and add these tags to your old photos. I think the incredible numbers attest to that fact quite effectively.
Social media sites continue to find ways to provide their users with new and exciting features, which allow people to interact like never before. It's very exciting to watch the new innovations, and I am anxious to see what comes next.
Thanks to Techcrunch for being one of the first to report the numbers (before the Flickr blog even!)
