health warning
Flickr Addiction and The Associated Health Risks
I want to take this opportunity to bring to your attention a photography related disease that is going mainly un-reported in the mainstream media. It could strike any photographer at any time and its effects are usually terminal. I refer, of course, to Flickr Addiction.
I urge you all to take this very seriously. You should not under estimate the effects that flickr.com can have on your health.
life before flickr addiction
Take a look at this fresh faced nerd (photo right). This was me some years back. It is clear, apart from looking like the love child of Bill Gates and Gollum from Lord of the Rings, that I had a bright future ahead of me. I was going places. A happy childhood and good education, the world was my oyster.
Now I’m a broken man…..those dreams have faded and I can’t think about the future….it just isn’t on my radar. All I can concentrate on is where the next comment is coming from, what new group needs my input, how to tag my photos to increase my chances of reaching explore and how I can best get around to organising my photos into sets to please my contacts. I no longer sleep for fear of missing new uploads from friends and family. I have lost the power of speech and merely babble incoherently when a member of my family talks to me about anything other than photography. It is ruining my relationships and affecting my work. I guess the worst thing is that I just didn’t see it coming. I thought it was harmless. I was wrong. › Continue reading
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