Let’s discuss friends and groups. Friends can be people you already know, people who take photos you like, people from a group that you’re in, pretty much anyone at all who tickles your fancy. You can search for people that share your interests, or you can search for people by name or e-mail address. At the top of your home page is a bar going across. There’s “Home”, “You”, “Organize”, “Contacts”, “Groups”, and “Explore”. If you click the blue arrows next to each topic, a bar comes down explaining what you can do under that category. Click on the “Contacts” arrow first. Scroll down to “People Search” and click on it. If you know a friend who uses Flickr, go ahead and type their name in, otherwise you can either add me as a friend (peckphotographs@hotmail.com) or just type an interest such as skiing or scuba diving. If you used my e-mail address, you’ll come right to my page because I’m the only person linked to that search string. If you typed an interest, you’re now faced with everyone on Flickr who has that interest.
Go ahead and click on someone’s profile. You can now see their contacts, any testimonials written about them, where they’re from, and other tidbits they’ve decided to share with the Flickr community. To add this person as a friend, click on the right-hand side where it says “add (username) as a contact”. You can now mark them as a friend or family, or just do nothing and keep them as a normal contact. After you’ve added a couple friends, go ahead and click on the “Home” tab at the top of the page.
