The Internet Needs to Take Some Meds
February 2nd, 2007For the life of me, I do not understand the uproar over the flickr/Yahoo! account changes.
What is the big deal? Does anybody have a valid reason for being upset besides something that makes one sound like a 3 year-old? o
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February 2nd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Oh man, I couldn’t agree more. I even delurked and created a TypeKey account to say how much I agree with you.
What’s the big deal?!
I was an ‘Old Skool’ member and I had no problem merging my account and moving on with my life. Aren’t there better things we could be focusing on?
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
You know, I wasn’t so concerned when I received the email, went to the switchover link, and setup a new Yahoo! account. But after reading a lot of the complaints, I’m a little worried about Yahoo!s policy on account deletion/suspension. I don’t want to have my Flickr account “accidentally” deleted, with complete photo loss, just because I haven’t signed in on the Yahoo! homepage to check a mail account I don’t care to have.
Of course, I don’t really know any of the details, and just my re signing-on to Flickr every now and again may counter all of these concerns. I don’t have any datamining concerns, like others have. I really don’t care at this point - everyone has my frickin’ email!
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
My wife and I share the laptop at home. We both have Yahoo accounts, but I’ve abandoned my Yahoo mail. Currently I can visit Flickr on a whim (it’s remembered my “old skool” password), no matter if my wife’s been logged into Yahoo. When I have to use my Yahoo acct to get to Flickr, I’ll have to login every time, and logout or she’ll end up in my Yahoo mail.
Not a huge inconvenience, but it’s still less convenient than having my login info saved. And that means I’ll only visit Flickr when there’s a good reason to.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
People will find something to complain about for everything.
I’ve been using Flickr with my Yahoo account since I joined Flickr. I’d had the Yahoo account forever, but never used their email. And I’ve never had any problems. So all of those crazy people need to settle down.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I don’t get it either. I have been using my yahoo login for a while now and I find it easier. Maybe I’m not “old school” enough. That seems to be the base of the argument. “Naw man, I remember flickr back in the day. I’m so old skool dude.”
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Yeah, I don’t understand the uproar either. I switched a while back, simply because it makes one less password to remember. Y! isn’t a huge evil corporation out to take our personal details and sell them to the highest bidder for fifteen dollars and a barrel of molasses.
I think its the allure of small company vs. big company… switching to the Y! login concedes to the Old Skoolrs that Flickr isn’t just Flickr anymore. Its now Flickr, a Yahoo company.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I’m one of the complainers. A polite complainer, tho. I migrated EVERYTHING over to Gmail. Suggested (nicely) if they have to be affiliated with anyone, affiliate with Gmail.
I’m over it now.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:44 pm
sounds like a case of everything you used to like is lame now. take a deep breath and get a new ID. sheesh. i could only read one page of rants.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
My issue was I have the same username everywhere.
If I cannot have the same userid I’m a little unhappy.
It turns out that the old username they have at Yahoo is in fact mine, but at an email address I haven’t used in years - so I cannot reclaim it.
This is an annoyance, but not something to say “hey don’t use flickr”.
I’ve actually been considering stopping using flickr entirely for some months (before the yahoo thing came to light) simply because they did lose some of my photos, and because what happens if something bad happens™ ?
Better off hosting it all on my own stuff.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Well, we were a little irked by it at first but got over it pretty quickly. We both switched, not a big, big deal but then Toby wasn’t able to sign on for over a day. Just didn’t work, which annoyed us a bit. I had trouble getting a yahoo screen name that didn’t require adding numbers and underscores, which is annoying when you have about 15 different Web sites (and therefore passwords), 6 email addresses (with different passwords) - you get the point.
I do actually already have a yahoo email but it’s linked to a private Flickr account that I use sometimes for clients. I guess, had I known this was going to happen, I wouldn’t have used that account but not a big deal.
I guess, for me, it’s just annoying to have to add another username/password thingy to my long list of existing ones.
In the end this opens up potential user name conflicts. At least for me and TJ. I tried signing up using a mihow yahoo account and that was already taken. Most everything easy to remember was already taken. In the end I had to get creative about it.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:48 pm
P.S. I do hope that I don’t sound like a 3-year-old, however.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I just liked being old skool for once. I guess that makes me three years old, huh?
My Yahoo ID is ages old and still valid, even though it is from a part of my life I’ve moved beyond. It’ll be easier to merge that to my Flickr account than create a new one, and I’m okay with that.
I’m still gonna wait until the last minute, though.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
A lot of what I read seem to come down to people that thought they were too cool to use Yahoo for anything. The fact that Yahoo has owned Flickr for about 18 months seemed totally lost on them.
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
The legit reasons I saw were for people that DO use Yahoo’s home page stuff and email and the like AND have *multiple* Flickr accounts because they can’t stay logged into Flickr and keep up with their mail and calendar in another window. Not unless they set up their calendar in each new Yahoo profile.
For me, I’m fine. I only have one Yahoo profile and one Flickr account.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:13 am
I switched over to a Yahoo! ID as soon as it was a possibility. And I did is as Heather’s suggested, I added _flickr on the end of my old username. It was my son’s idea at the time, and a good one.
It has not been difficult at all to remember the login, and I just can’t help but look forward to the changes. I used the Yahoo! Photos Beta as they were making it behave more like Flickr. I’m looking forward to future announcements.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:38 am
I admit I have the same problem as Natalie- an old yahoo ID that I would like to use but I can’t reclaim because it is “taken” by me. I can’t get it back and can’t login to it- Yahoo needs to fix that.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 am
I agree, there’s a lot more important stuff to get upset about. Pick your battles people…then again we live in a country that has more voters for American Idol than the presidential election.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:46 am
I merged my accounts a while ago so this is not a big deal.
However, if I start seeing targeted marketing pop up in my pro Flickr account (”…as a service to our customers…” of course) Flickr can kiss my money (and my ass) goodbye.
Yahoo can do good or evil things with the new data mining opportunities that go with the merging of accounts. Plaster ads all over the free services, but my paid account is off limits.
February 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 am
Probably because it makes the experience of Flickr seem less of a internet-backwater-secret to more of a corporate commodity — kinda like when a small town gets its first Super Wal-Mart, and the sprawl of civilization can’t be far behind.
February 3rd, 2007 at 8:52 am
I fear change.
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:22 am
this whole thing smacks of the hysteria in Boston. complete and total over-reaction.
February 3rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
I was worried it would make my Flickr UserID match my Yahoo ID, which is really stupid. I like just having my name.
But once I sucked it up and did it, that’s not the case. So I worried for nothing. Which happens all the time and never stops me.
February 3rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I agree what is the big deal…it’s not like you’re going to die because you merge. Your title said it all, sometimes people whine to much, over nothing.
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 pm
It’s just irritating. Yet another ID/password I have to create and remember, plus the name I want to use is already taken — by me, from an old Yahoo email that I’m not allowed to re-use.
However, I expect I will get over it.
February 4th, 2007 at 10:46 am
I’m worried because now my Yahoo ID and Flickr account have to match.
So now I’m Studley_Hungwell in Flickr. Everyone’s going to be so disappointed!
Oh, wait… Whew! Melissa says I don’t have to worry about that, so how do I delete this….