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Re:Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network" by ivankirigin on Sunday December 02, 2007 @11:43PM (#85498)
Flickr is the best photosharing app on the net, without question. I find the intermediary of facebook for photos, even from flickr photos, to be inferior to an rss feed from friend's photos.

I actually have three feeds:

-friend's photos

-comments on my photos

-comments made after my comments on another photo

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Re:Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network" by nostrademons on Monday December 03, 2007 @12:02PM (#85643)
Almost none of my friends know about RSS, though. The point of photo sharing's to share photos, which is harder when your friends don't check...
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Re:Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network" by ivankirigin on Monday December 03, 2007 @12:13PM (#85646)
My parents are pretty computer illiterate and very active on Flickr. They would be confused by FaceBook.

Real photosharing penetrates demographics where people don't understand computers, not just people who don't understand RSS. My point about RSS is that Flickr is the best for non-technies and techies alike.

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