One of America's few uncontested cultural authorities is the non-commercial Public Broadcasting System. The PBS blog has a must-read article which includes the following passage:
"With the plethora of social networking sites, it’s easy to come to the quick conclusion that what we are doing on these sites — chatting up strangers, lurking on people’s profiles, spying on friends — is just a waste of time. But there is one site that is more than just an unhealthy habit: Photo-sharing site Flickr is a photography school, art gallery and a sandbox for experimentation. On Flickr, bad photographers get schooled, mediocre ones get better and some even rise to the top as stars — all supported by an immense, and sometimes intimate, international community."
Of course here in the Sandlands we have no need of a photography school, art gallery and a sandbox for experimentation. Experimentation? Heaven forfend!
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