Snapfish Has Snapped Up Flickr

Snapfish Has Snapped Up Flickr, originally uploaded by ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ.

Flickr, a so called "Photo Sharing Site" has now introduced an exclusive "service" to flickr members. Formerly, flickr Pro members could opt out of printing services and were not subject to advertising. Now we have it staring at us on all our pages. We have the stupid little shopping cart right next to our flickr mailbox. One of these days I'm going to click on that accidentally and "buy" a few of my photos.

Flickr has increasingly put forth so called features that only answer to a revenue generation goal. They have introduced such "sparkly goodness" as the App Garden, the Big Blue Button and now this horrible printing service from Snapfish. The Powers That Be (Petaybees, with attribution to Anne McCaffrey) have ignored flickr members requests for a lot of things. Flickr HQ has sought to demean flickr members by calling our work "items", "things" and "stuff".

Flickr does not allow its members to sell their photos prominently from their photo pages. I've been fortunate in having a few works considered by buyers but that's a hit or miss scenario. Yet, Flickr will allow service providers and commercial interests to invade flickr with subliminal advertising, drop down ads and other gimmickry. It has become another internet store where the members are nothing more than consumers and hobbyists to feed the maw of the big corporate "Fish".