#5 flickr: fotos, fun and frustration

I spent way more time exploring flickr than I should have (still clicking when everyone else at my place had taken themselves off to bed - even the dog). I'm beginning to see how on-line"social networking" tools can become really addictive and physically isolating.
I was blown away by the quality of photos posted on flickr - I expected a swag of amateurish happy snaps much like my own recording people, places and incidents of interest only to the person uploading them. Instead I found a whole galaxy of unusual, beautiful, thought-provoking, artisitc, life-affirming images that people all around the world were prepared to share with me.
Although flickr is fairly user-friendly for the first-timer, I found finding out how to do some fings frustrating e.g. how to change the order in which my photos appear (never did really resolve this one), how to rotate an image and make sure it stayed rotated (sorted, I think).
For the record here are some of the things I did:

• Uploaded several photos from different sources on my computer
• Organised them using tags and sets
• Marked on a map where some of them were taken
• Searched for other people's photos that shared some of my tags (very interesting)
• Looked at some groups
• Looked at some forum posts
• Set up and used the "blog this" function to add one of my photos to this blog
• Worked out the URL of an image on flickr and used it to add the image to my blog
• Haven't got into the whole contacts/friends/family thing yet