Hello, and welcome to In My Bag! My name is Jenn, and this is my product review blog. 
If you had asked me in September of 2006 what my thoughts on Flickr were, I probably would have said something like, “Flickr is cool, but it isn’t for me. I like having control over the placement and settings of my photos!” But somewhere between then and October of 2006 Flickr pulled me into its beautiful grasp, and I have been hooked ever since.
Flickr isn’t just a website where you can store photos. Flickr is a community. You can store photos, but you can also share them — with family, with friends, or with anyone else on Flickr who happens to mosey on by your photostream. You have complete control over who sees your photos — anyone, those who are on your contact list, those who are on your contact list as a friend, those who are on your contact list as a family member, or just you. Enable or disable comments, notes (placed on photos themselves with the use of some fancy CSS footwork), and tags (I don’t have to explain tags, do I?). Create sets, and put those sets into collections (I think of sets as a way to organize photos by a certain date, and collections as the albums to put them in). Join groups and share your photos with others who share a common interest or specific photographing style.
Flickr, in summary, is quite the addiction. To date, I have been registered at Flickr for one year and five months, and have uploaded almost 3,500 photos! If you’re interested, my Flickr account can be found here.
I first joined flickr years ago but it had nothing to do with photos! Those were almost an afterthought then. a group of us had all chatted at a site which closed so we used the flickr group option to chat there, instead!
I never understood remotely hosted files, though. I like having everything on my domain, hosted on my server, scripts I install myself all in one place. It used to be that everyone wanted that, too, but now everyone is branching out to services to Youtube, flickr, twitter so on and so forth to host and serve all these needs instead of their own space. I just don’t get it.