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Starting a conversation with 'I just found this new group that... uh? yes, in Flickr, ...'
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you can look at someone's favorites and know who are the photographers without mousing over. hehehe
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your brother knows who fubuki and striatic are.
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your brother knows who fubuki and striatic are.
damn.
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some people start a group named after you, and your mom is in it.
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Darn, and I thought there was an escape hatch somewhere! Hey, I just an idea for a new group -- 12 steps! ;)
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... - your idea of achievement is validated by being mentioned in the Flickr Blog. What laundry?
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LOL! Yeah. It's become a problem. I woke up around 3AM to use the bathroom and had to log onto Flickr just because.
Now that Lkat has given me a pro account for a year, I fear it's only going to get worse.
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i know that feeling..I've been getting up an hour early (and I'm not a morning person) to go to flickr
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More symptoms: you've invited flickr friends from afar to come visit anytime!
You start paying for flickr memberships for your kid's friends (w/cameras)!
You become outraged to find out a "friend" is using one of the other trashy photo sites.
I know I have more symptoms but don't want to spend anymore time thinking cuz I have other flickr things to attend to!
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When you forsake all of your old bookmarks and web surfing habits in favor of surfing just one site: Flickr.
When your wife tells you that the kid crapped his pants and it's your turn to change the diapers - and it takes a good 10 minutes for you to say, "just a moment" and then another 30 to actually pull yourself away from the monitor to change your poor kid's diaper...
Hurley- you're right. I actually take it personally and get offended when a "friend" emails me a link to one of their photosets on one of those imposter photo sites (I just don't click the link).
One more thing - when you think that a Flickr Pro membership would be the perfect gift for anyone and everyone you know.
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This is all very nice, but just to be clear, we will not be held responsible for anybody's dirty diapers.
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My wife holds you responsible... ;)
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And there you have it. Proof of addiction. I had to come back to this Group to see if anything new had been posted! Must.... close.... browser....
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LOL Ben, and your Links bar has just different places on the Flickr site.
My additions:
When you go to a party and realize you can't have a decent conversation with anyone because they (gasp!) don't know what Flickr is!
When they block the Flickr IP address at work!
When you begin to look for squared circles on your girlfriend's body.
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...when your coffee goes cold, forgotten while you check yet another group?
Can that happen?
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You get depressed when you refresh the browser session and there are no "new" icons.
:O)
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serial refreshing of your browser to see if anyone noticed your last upload in the past 30 secs
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Fubuki, I think I speak for the rest of us when I say, we always notice!
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"Flickr.com... F, L, I, C, K, R, no E."
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You get paid to test/debug web sites for a living, yet it's more fun to do it for free on Flickr
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Yes, tangetialism, i've said that at least 20 times exactly that way!
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You keep a second newsreader running just for Flickr RSS feeds.
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You don't find the "massage" message funny anymore.
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and you can't believe that 40 minutes is really 40 minutes.
(In Fotolog, we measured downtime the same way they measure plate tectonics)
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"Flickr.com... F, L, I, C, K, R, no E."
it's funny because it is true.
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not only do you have the flickr jingle drilled into memory, but you know which voice blongs to which developer.
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You inspired the flickr jingle, but are still waiting for the KiRF remix.
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i can't get any work done because I flickr IS crack.
a warning sign: in a conversation actually quoting fubuki that "'flickr is crack' and you should try it!"
p.s. that "one time in flickr" conversation has happened already too many times.
...and then flickr
...and then flickr...
and this deal with flickr...
yadda yadda flickr...
(but i've got my mother and my sister both with the flickr i.v. this way I can have that conversation and not feel silly)
shall someone start the group flickr anonymous for those of us that may lose their jobs to being a flickr junkie?
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Just like "google" became a verb, perhaps the Flickr staff should try to promote positive meanings to "to flickr" and other expressions like "doing a flickr", "flickr something", "I'm flickring", etc. Lest they become associated with "wasting time", "goofing off", etc. ;)
[You definitely don't want "I got flickred out of my job"...]
[Added a bit later:] Memes are powerful things. As a cogno-intellectual exercise, maybe we should have a small friendly competition of coining interesting meanings to "flickr"-derived words and expressions.
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When you can't turn down an invitation to join a group, even though there's no way in hell you'll ever have time to take a picture to post to it because of all the other groups you belong to ...
ps. Um, zen, you still have a job? ;)
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-You fail two tests in one day because you spent the entire weekend on Flickr instead of studying. :(
Interesting, Gustavo - I've often told people that I was "Flickring".
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...when you and your brother just had a discussion about all of these signs of addiction last week.
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You forget to get the directions to a party you really wanted to go to because you said "you'd call later" not wanting to miss any new flickage.
Hey! I did it, flickage!
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A person makes two gifts out of flickr images and the recipients (1,2) think it's the coolest thing ever.
When you get annoyed because you realize people are still reading your blog instead of checking your flickr account.
When you stop posting to your favorite list-serv and basically beg them all to join flickr if they ever want to hear from you again. (It worked).
(And I just want to second both Fubuki's being able to name the photog in other people's favorites and HurleyGurley's "other trashy photo sites.")
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There is help...
www.flickr.com/groups/flickr_anoymnous/
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no no. no help needed. we could stop any time.
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NO! I'm not addicted! I'm NOT!
OK, fine. I'm addicted. ;)
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Ok, admit it, how often are you guys coming back to check this thread?
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Truth be said, the "addiction" is what is keeping me from going pro. Took me a while to realize it, but I'd better find a balance first, for my own good.
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... has left the building [deleted] says:
Väcäpinta:
Every hour - but I am just reading, not writing anything ;-)
Now excuse me please, I need to go check my other groups and my recent comments, and the comments I've made, and I still have to upload the 83 pictures of tonight's sunset and ...
Me? Addicted? NO WAY!
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...when you spend years putting thousands of photos onto your your personal web site, paying for server space and grind to a halt when flickr comes along.
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when your laptop is dead and you are using the public computer in your hotel in the middle of the night to check flickr and post massive run-on sentences on said page.
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oh, and you are simultaneously recommending flickr to the random businessman at the public computer next to you.
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When you surf flickr while giving blood! (I really did that) (And told the blood-tech peeps/paid vampires all about Flickr while doing so).
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LOL !!! EMDOT wins!! i bow to you with a flourish of my hat.
you know you are addicted when you write something like i just did - and completely and sincerely mean it!
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you are addicted when you eye up every circle for a squared circle crop job, every piece of rusted junk, peeling paint, bright freaking flower, door and window, dog's nose, reflective surface....
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you are addicted when you eye up every circle for a squared circle crop job, every piece of rusted junk, ...
Hmm, I thought that was a sign you were addicted to fubuki.
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you know you are addicted when after hours and hours of looking at other people's stuff ... you realized you've crapped your own pants
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when you actually sit here and read everything everyone else said in this thread and say to yourself 'yea, i do that, yea i do that..."
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Ha -- Fubuki -- just wait til you find yourself strapped to some doctor's office chair with a computer in front of you. :) (I blogged while giving blood, too).
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When your involvement in flickr becomes a major part of your Statement of Purpose for admission to an MFA Photography program.
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you all are wonderful!
posting a comment reveals that i'm here. shit.
i do have *other* things to do; I do!
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when you make your wife look at Flickr with you, expounding on how cool it is. "Look at the squared circle group. isn't that cool?!"
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When you have two finals tomorrow but are reading this thread because you want to know just how addicted you are.
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"Look at the squared circle group. isn't that cool?!"
and my girlfriend's response:
"oh.. that's nice dear"
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same here!
And I installed wireless tonight! What do I do with it? Lurk on Flickr!
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When you browse flickr on your phone all the way up to the time your teacher passes out the finals, then when you need to get your larger picture photos before you get home-you change the public terminal's home page to flickr.com in home of getting more "flickraters".
When you are filling in an online form, and you put your flickr page under *your site*
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How about spending all your computer science classes surfing Flickr instead of getting your work done, so you (theoretically) have to spend your entire Christmas holidays catching up? How about knowing that that won't happen because of Flickr?
Somebody terminate my internet access. I just can't take it any longer!
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...when you put together a company to build a photo sharing site just like Flickr so you can spend every day and every weekend...
wait a second.
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...when you put together a company to build a photo sharing site just like Flickr so you can spend every day and every weekend...
the best addiction is the kind you can share with your friends.
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I'm showing a friend right now, that is 'like': 'what is this, really?"
"it's gooooood stuff, man"
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or in the case of Caterina, an addiction you can make money off of...
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First one's free!!!
<-- dealr checks her beepr
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efatima [deleted] says:
... you suddenly become religious and your prayers now revlove around 'God! More hits, more comments, more favs' :)
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You've just nodded your way sagely through the above postings.
You have three Flickr pages open - one to do group admin, looking at new images and commenting and adding contacts then inviting them to join other groups; one to surf freely for new images from other people's favourites or through tags; and another for the sole purpose of hitting refresh to see if there are any new comments or messages or photos from your contacts.
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Of the 6 home pages I have on separate tabs open all the time, 4 of them are flickr ones... I then go mad and end up opening loads of other tabs to 'look at later'.
I normally end up with so many that I can only see a long line of the 'f' icons at the top.
I was showing someone how to use flickr last night, and just couldn't get how she could function on here without at least 3 windows open...
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That's coz I'm new to flickr and still learning... but with your help it won't take long to be as fluent on this as you are!
Bring it on...
:)
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Oh, and by the way, I have 4 tabs open now... I'm getting there!
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...when you change Flickr to your homepage and eat all your meals in front of the computer...someone...please...help...
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your user icon wears a santa hat over 'happy thingy' .. and it is not a sexual innuendo.
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efatima [deleted] says:
You experience all the symptoms of being in love - can't eat, can't sleep ... always hooked.
Flickr being down is like being disconnected from the internet. COMPLETELY.
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When you take photos like this... (Fubuki!)
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efatima [deleted] says:
You Nailed it gURL!
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ugh....the long long memory of google is matched only by Special's. grandchildren (and perhaps a federal court or two) will throw that one in my face. :)
youve got it bad when your flickrackhead friends point you out in a crowd as an addict posterboy. 'Now he's a junkie, no doubt about it...'
better start learning how to say 'my name is fubuki' before the intervention gets here..
'Ismi fubuki... hahaha
Ore wa fubuki da
Mera nam fubuki hai
those polyglot greetings on the home page will come in handy!
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then again special and efatima - i suspect we will all be in the same recovery group, so your greetings will prolly be something like this:
'Dont mess with Special...' :)
'i'm efatima. come here...closer!! i cant see your name stickr.' :)
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lol fubuki!! (Stickr, heh heh)
you're also a flickrhead when someone leaves a comment on a photo you uploaded 2 weeks ago (ancient!) and you try and figure out why and how they got there...
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and you add a comment to a topic just to keep it afloat in the listings.
or you save your best picture for last because you know folks might not go back in your stream to check it out.
you go thru all Zens photos - and i have...
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(not so slowly) replacing "real" friends with Flickr friends.
Reading the now 70+ responses to this thread and knowing almost everyone of the respondents.
Adding my own response, 'cuz I don't want to be left out.
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or you save your best picture for last because you know folks might not go back in your stream to check it out.
And I thought I was the only one who did that! :)
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You are all crackrs. I don't have a flickr problem.
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MimsyBee, didn't you once work on Flickr?
Isnt this photo which we will call Exhibit A, a photo of you feeding Stewart and Caterina's dog!!
Case closed.
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Having 3,392 photos up on flickr and because you're on a mac but not OS 10.3 so you put all of them up with the web upload command, 6 at a time.
And then knowing the honor that Fubuki has seen all of them!!
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no no no väcäpinta I've had treatment. I've recovered. I'm here only to test my resolve.
and I was but a lowly intern - you know, a gofer, an entertainer of small dogs, a flickr chattr, a consumer of take-out office meals.
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you get excited when they release new tools... christmas morning excited!
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You change the face(s) of Flickr with one small idea...
literally! (and the help of striatic, of course)
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When you can proudly say "yes" to all the above-listed (and would-be listed) response to this topic.
Darn, I'm a flickr junkie and not the least bit ashamed of it!
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oldnewyour [deleted] says:
flicker is crack or do you mean people who have no life?
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spoken like a non addict, oldnewyour.
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Either way oldnewguy, there's no need to be a buzz kill.... I guess I'll just have to smoke more Flickr.
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oldnewyour is that lame spammer that came to troll all over the boards a couple of days ago. luckily i'm so high on flickr s/he doesn't bug me that much. but seeing as s/he has created multiple accounts to continue the trollage, i think we really know who has no life. (waiting for o.n.y. to bring out the hate/love line....)
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I don't really understand why someone would expend so much energy just to try to bug people. Talk about hate.
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oldnewyour - look at our pictures. its very clear we definitely have lives - rich full colorful lives - share with us some of yours.
we lovingly say flickr is crack because we love the community and the collaboration - its not a substitute for our lives - its our showcase.
cheers troll.
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One is not enough!
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guess oldnewyour [deleted] aint no more. tsk tsk tsk.
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I used to call my Blackberry the Crackberry. Now I even neglect my email.
Today: 7,634 unopened emails in my inbox.
Glad to see a support group. ;-)
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oldnewyour [deleted] says:
flicker is crack or do you mean people who have no life?
1. gave up
2. can not spell flickr
3. no lifr!
it is crack, if u say so...
what is crack?
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80 minutes ago i told my wife i was going downstairs so i could call my mom in peace.
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when...
its 11.46 at night. You sit infront of your computer with three tabs open hittin, your recent comments, comments you've made, and group activities hitting refresh. You want to go to bed but you can't pry your self away from the computer because you don't want to miss any new flickr action.
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Lou just described exactly how I've spent every night since Christmas holidays started.
This must be really unhealthy.
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