social commentary

with the growing abundance of social networks on the internet is it not all becoming a little bit too much?

blogging started blogger competing with wordpress or vice versa, then came the choice to upload photos followed by the decision to profess loyalty with either flickr, picasa, kodac photo or the list goes on. thus began the daily document on stories that are your's or someone else's life...

along comes facebook, myspace, twitter and they keep on coming... some taking it really seriously - i have a friend who we shall call the facebook slut, what with 354 friends - others using it as a means to escape their boredom or just pass time using it as a means to network.

there's a problem as the inevitable looms and your life gets interrupted by the constant need to update and check and correct and make tiny little profile amendments and then click click, presto you are actually literally a walking talking horror movie plugged in...

zoomr vs flickr

having used neither and noticing that most r using the later i have decided to investigate what this is all about...
help me buy a laptop alerted me to zoomr as they, unlike flickr, helped to give her a little piece of the pie needed to make her much needed purchase, i followed the link - the add gimmick worked tho it really is nothing more than high tech begging...
do people know about zoomr, do they choose to use flickr or is it a case of flickr being the one that x uses and so all others follow...

flickr only has 6 feature pages while zoomr has 8 so the latter starts out in front already...

both allow u to share your images with the world in the quest for some kind of recognition....
1 point zoomr, 1 point flickr
both allow for comments, resizing, click of the mouse stuff but zoomr lets u add a map to your photo...
another point zoomr, flickr trailing

now it gets little interesting... zoomr allows u to add sound to the photo, while flickr's next feature is the share with family and friends option...
another point for zoomr with flickr falling behind but gaining a sympathy point...
both have a pseudo organizer functions but again i think that zoomr may be on too a little more sophisticated filling... while flickr allows for the album feature etc, zoomr allows u to name each person in the photo which means when searching for all the shots of a certain someone, simply enter that name and presto up come the shots....
sorry flickr but zoomr gets another point...
the competition then comes to a little unfair halt as all that flickr has to offer is that they have the rss feed functions, mobile loading, easy uploads blah blah and a few other gizmo's with zoomr inviting u to have a look at more features...
that'll be zoomr scoring another point

zoomr's extras r something called lightbox and streamer and when someone works out what the fuck let me know but what the hell points for effort
wait a second, zoomr can make the photos talk to u in any of 15 languages and they aren't done yet...
they also finish with 'if that wasn't enough'... blah rss, blah mobile phone, blah blah blah everything flickr has and more...

tally the score, i make it a 1 + sympathy point for flickr and a whole heap more for zoomr
so the question begs for comment, why does everyone seem to lie down with flickr?