Goodbye, Flickr

Listen, Flickr, we need to talk.

I know that we've been together since 2005. And it's been a good five years, but, some things have changed. I know we've been pro-users together since 2007, and we've enjoyed the service you've given, but, since we need to give you another $25 by the end of the week to continue being so I took a look at the data.

It wasn't good.

What that basically says, is that we had a large spike of viewing at the end of July, with the posting of vacation pictures. After that, we've been at about 2 or 3 views of pictures a day for months now...

Listen, it's not you, its, well.. facebook. People don't care enough to click through a link and look at pictures, they'll really only look at them if they're already on the site they are currently reading. Which is usually facebook. Its the new AOL, apparently.

So, we'll continue to use you, but we're going to have to take our relationship back a step and only let people see our most recent 200 photos, and not upload more than 100 Mb a month.  I know that change can be scary, but I need that $25 in a about an hour when I go grocery shopping.

Also, you don't integrate with the geo-tagged data that I already entered into iPhoto, which is a pain in my ass.

See you around!