Playing catch-up – Flickr vs. Photobucket

Another snowy weekend so I think I will try to get caught up with my 23things lessons. I’m going to write a cautionary tale and lament about the first time I used flickr. At the time, I had an email account with sbcglobal, so when I signed up for a flickr account I used that email address. Over the course of time, I changed internet service providers and no longer had access to the sbcglobal account. I didn’t use my flickr account for awhile, and when I tried to go back in (I think it was after 6 months) I discovered that my account was de-activated for nonuse. In order to get it activated again, I had to click a verification in the email they were sending me. Guess where they sent the email? To my sbcglobal account, which I no longer had access to! I was out of luck. Fortunately, I had saved copies of the most of the pictures other places so I didn’t lose too many. I started using photobucket then, and I like it pretty well. It allows you to edit the pictures after you upload them. You can crop them, lighten them, etc. It doesn’t work nearly as well as iPhoto, but its free and convenient.
For this 23 things lesson, I created a new flickr account using a yahoo email that I seldom use. I uploaded pictures from places I have visited in the last couple of years. It was pretty easy to link to my wordpress blog using the flickr widget.