Tagging People on Flickr

[wulf]

Flickr seems a bit late to the party with it's ability to tag people in your photos; on the other hand, it seems to have done it well (like the person who bursts through the door at 11pm and grabs all the attention).

What do you think of it? Will you use it or will you ignore it or even refuse to allow yourself to be tagged?

Wulf

[gazsus]

I'm highly unlikely to use this tagging feature on Flickr because the photos I upload don't contain people. Any photos containing people are usually taken in the local pub or at a party and those go to Facebook for friends to see.

[lputman]

I won't use it.

[windrider86]

I would be reluctant. Wouldnt the tagged images then be fair game to print? And yes, I know anything can be stolen from the net but why make it easier?

[vandergus]

I'll probably use it mainly because I'm an obsessive organizer. Currently I just use image tags to identify people in a photograph so it'll be nice to have a dedicated feature. But this sort of thing seems more useful in the context of a site like Facebook where the purpose of the photographs is more social and less artistic.

[vandergus]

After playing with it for a little bit, it's really annoying that the person you're tagging has to have a flickr account or an email address associtated with them. Some of my married friends share email addresses or have joint flickr accounts. How am I supposed to tag just one of them in a photo? What if I want to tag my grandma who doesn't have an email address? Or my friends kid, who also doesn't have an email address? Guess I'll stick to tags.

Implementation FAIL.

[WooD]

The only thing I use Flickr for is posting images on here.

No tags, key words or anything.

[fletch]

I want to use it.

I currently use flickr for all my photography and facebook for all my social photos. However facebook pictures suck big style. The quality is worse than terible and you can only share very small versions so your friends can't print them. No tagging and organisation is one dimensional. The only things is has is the ability to tag people and very high uptake with IRL friends.

I just needs to figure out permissions and privacy on flickr and integration with FB so I can use Flickr to host all of my social photography as well.

[Nicole]

I think it's kind of neat. I've used a greasemonkey script combined with machine tags to do this in the past which was obviously a very clumsy way to do it. I haven't tried it on any of my images yet, but I did get a note that I was in one.

Edit: I should add that probably the only photos I'll personally tag like this are ones from Flickr meets

Originally Posted by windrider86

I would be reluctant. Wouldnt the tagged images then be fair game to print? And yes, I know anything can be stolen from the net but why make it easier?

Why would tagging the images make them fair game to print? I don't see anything that indicates that the photographer's permissions regarding the photo are changed, so I would think that if you had your photos as all rights reserved etc it wouldn't change a thing. Maybe I'm missing something though

[Saralonde]

I checked it out, but probably won'tbe using it. For me, flickr is mostly a site for sharing a few pictures and I rarely put images with people up.