Inquiry: Think about your interests. Find a social media networking site that is most suitable and aligned with those interests. Think about how you might use this network personally, and then how you might use it professionally. Reflect on this on your blog.
I have a strong passion for photography; therefore have chosen the social media networking site Flickr. The diversity of this website promotes personal use, however is also very acceptable for professional use.
Personal use can relate to sharing of photographs that appeal to a vast audience. Photography is a form of art and we all have the right to express ourselves. Self-related personal photographs, for example, something that may be posted on Facebook or Instagram may not be appropriate for this site. In addition, intimate or explicit photographs are also not the intention of this website.
Professional use presents many positive opportunities when using this website. There are a number of professions in the field of design that could benefit from this site. Flickr provides a direct portal to millions of sources and vice-versa. The option to upload you own photographs could also become a profitable marketing campaign.
Figure 1: Flickr logo Source: Flicker, viewed 17 September 2015, https://www.flickr.com/about/goodies/
Practical: You are the technology writer for your local paper. Write a 300 word review of the social media network you selected as your Inquiry task. Write the review as though you are recommending (or otherwise) the social media platform for someone else.
Flickr has been a wonderful discovery and more recently becoming my favourite social media network to use. Flickr (pronounced Flicker) is an image hosting website that was created in 2005. The popular site enables users to upload, access, organise, edit and share photographs from any device, anywhere in the world. The focus of this website is to influence a generalised audience, therefore it is recommended that photographs be not of an explicit nature. Animals and sceneries appear to be the most common subjects, however, the notion of people in images are still very prominent.
You wont need an account to view and access the images, however you will need an account to upload content to the site. Flickr also offers three types of accounts to get you started, what’s better is they are all free! People often lose precious memories through the use of hard drives, USB devices and old school technologies such as negatives and developed photographs. Flickr promotes a secure database for all your photographs, as promoted “The home for all your photos”.
Getting started is super easy with a quick sign up that instantly gives you the option to automatically back up your device with a free 1,000GB of photo storage. This site is also connected to creating blogs known as Flickr Blogs, which further can be linked with other social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. The site is a versatile, practical and valuable system to a selection of users, especially to those with an interest in the digital media industry and/or artistry industry.
Since joining recently, I have spent some time exploring the site and absolutely blown away with the skill of some of these photographs. I have not yet uploaded my own content, but I will be exploring my account further soon.
References
Flickr 2015, Explore, viewed 17 September 2015, https://www.flickr.com/
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Hi Ashley
This is an informative and well written review of Flickr. Great job. I liked the personal opinions you offer about the usefulness of Flickr and can tell from your writing that it is a site you enjoy.
The only other constructive criticism I can offer for improvement before submission is a couple of simple omissions: within the Practical blog entry: maybe ‘Professional use presents many positive opportunities’ reads a little better and then just a simple addition of an S as well to ‘The option to upload you own photographs’. So easy to overlook in the incredible volume of work that we are trying to do 🙂 No doubt you would have found this in your final proof read.
Awesome work. Congratulations.
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Ryan,
Thank you for the feedback, I have amended the blog with the punctuation error that you identified. I have spent today proofreading all my blogs and have certainly found some minor errors. I will endeavour to view some of your blogs and provide feedback in the coming days.
Cheers, Ashley Anderson
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