The picture worth of a million words and her deaf mom always call his deaf son: PRECIOUS. Yet again, the image brings the very valuable feeling that we love to watch him in freeze frame before he grows up. If you are lucky ones who have a contact connection in my Flickr user account, you might see 90 pictures of Caleb's first birthday party along with deaf friends and their kids. But in public, you only see five pictures of them in set.
In fall of 2003, there was old social networking website, Ringo. Ringo has exploded so fast for deaf community to connect each other into the circle of friends. In early of 2004, Ringo has acquired to Tickle, everything has changed, lost several information from users profile and too complicated user interface. Several users of the Deaf have lost motivation with this.
From now in year 2005, I would like to see deaf social networking bring back to life, just like what Ringo did. I chose Flickr, pronounced click the camera to capture the photos in social networking. Flickr is a digital photo sharing website and web services suite, developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver, Canada company founded in 2002 and acquired by Yahoo in spring 2005. Flickr is widely most popular photo tools for bloggers to use web services on their own websites. Like Ringo and Tickle, Flickr joins the social networking with pictures and moblogging. I chose to love the pictures from friends to post in Internet and see their photos rather than sending email attachment in email body and easily forgotten to look back in email attachment later.
I know everyone love the pictures. I only have few deaf friends in my Flickr contacts, and they don't just post much of their photos in there. There are few members - 13 members in Flickr groups: Deaf. I don't understand why deaf are not interested having free account of Flickr to post their photos, connect circle of friends and share the photos? Or does they ignore Flickr?
If you take several pictures from digital camera, including your social friends, they would like to have pictures, and asking to send email attachment to individual friend. It eaten my time much to do these. I decide to post pictures in Flickr, and just send web address to friends to go there and have their time to view my Flickr photo sites any time, any place. Save my time and my life easier than having email and photo thing.