uh huh.  flickr now introduces an option to post video among the great and not so great photographs of the world.

faq’s here.

i’m not too sure how i feel about it.  i’m a pro member and love flickr.  its a clean and simple interface that allows me to do a multitude of things easily.

do i want to see it become littered with useless and stupid videos?

before i could make a decision, i had to look into it a little more.

• only PRO USERS get to post video – so if you were looking to post video for free, forget it.
• videos cannot exceed 90 seconds of play – for now anyways.  no extended videos of the uncle larry’s 70th bday party, sorry.

i wondered, why would flickr do this?  after seeing the following video footage, i understood why  –>

 

watching the clip of ‘playing in the grass at sundown in wyoming’  inspires and shows great creativity.  i see what the flickr folks were trying to do.  if all the videos uploaded carried this attempt at creativity, i would see no problems with it. 

however – as wonderful as the previous example was, you still got donkey video clips like this that should relocate itself elsewhere. –>

 

if you want to post a video of yourself singing karaoke while you’re HUNGOVER – then this is something that should be stuck on youtube.  NOT on a photo sharing site.  i can see this user has some pretty snazzy photos – but the videos, well. 

the videos i see posted aren’t exactly creative and of inspiring content.  they’re dumb clips i’d rather not waste my time viewing.  sure, you could throw in my face what i always say – if you dont like it, leave.  if you dont like it, don’t watch it.  if you dont like it, don’t listen to it…

but i signed up and PAID for a PHOTO SHARING site – to view photographs.  not to view people posting stupid clips of themselves singing.  go open a youtube account already.  its FREE.

what do i think?  honestly, we all know the real reason why flickr is entertaining the video options. 

money.  yahoo wants a piece of the pie.

will i use this feature?  i dunno.  maybe.  it has its creative angle and most likely wont be going away anytime soon regardless of how some flickr folks feel or think.

what do i really think?  i think you shouldn’t try fixing something that isn’t broken. 

and i think garbage videos may have found another home.