Introduction to Flickr - #5 - Finding Friends and Creating Groups

Welcome back to the introduction to Flickr series. This is your Flickr photo stream. Over here on the right, you’ll see your sets and on the left your most recently uploaded photos. You can completely change the layout of your photo stream to something you like. You can choose to show small images only, small images into your sets, medium images only or medium images in your sets. I’ll choose small images in my sets. You can also create a contact list to make sharing your photos with friends that much easier. You can invite people to your Flickr profile by entering in your email and name and choose up their friends or family. This helps setting privacy levels. If you want to learn more about setting privacy levels, check out the third episode in this series. You can then enter in an invitation and click send.

Another way to add a contact is to search for friends who may already be using Flickr. You can have Flickr search to your contact list in your Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail accounts or you can search for someone already using Flickr. I chose to search for people in my Hotmail account and it shows that these contacts are already using Flickr. Now, I can choose to add them as a contact, a friend, a family member or both or not to add them at all. Click on add contacts when you’re done. You can also create groups on Flickr and join preexisting groups. Let’s say you really love photos of Hawaii, just do a search for Hawaii and here are some groups with lots of photos that have to do with Hawaii. You can then to join the group.

If you like you can create your own group too. Decide if you want to allow everyone to join, have it the invite only or private. Then just name it, add a description and choose if it’s age appropriate for everyone or only those over 18, you then just need to setup how your page should look and name the administrators. Now, your group has been created and you can customize the rules, the group information and the members how you see fit.

Remember, there are 10 part to this series so don’t forget to check out the other episodes in the introduction to Flickr series.


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