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A lot of people are still comparing flickr to ipernity and back. Nicole posted her thoughts here and there are a lot of comments about this all over here. There is the public wishlist and suggestions of members. (more)
I know the team is making a wonderful job, working hard for us and i love how close they stay to us! This is worth so much. Making me feel comfy and home a lot. I spend many many hours a day here, just like i did back at flickr, it's become my favorite website. Yes it has.

Surfing and hanging around in those social networks, online communities is part of my job and I love it but it's hard to be present and active in more than 2-3 i think, it's so time-consuming and energy-draining (thanks for that word Sherry!) My daily must-haves at the moment are ipernity, twitter and google reader.

Well, ok, so long for all the bla-bla, now what's the point Mr. Aßbach?

Comparing ipernity to flickr (the community) to me means:

moonbathing

- very few comments
- few daily visits (4000 in 3 months)
- few faves only
- hard to find like-minded people
- hard to be found by like-minded people
- hard to hit explore
- a lot of comments and posts here are not according to images and the words along them, but merely conversations on whatever topic ( not bad just different )

Why is that? Assumptions:

- groups are still missing ( like-minded people find eachother and build new communities, can share
- the possibility to make "yourself" invisible closes doors , a lot of people tend to "spy" and don't leave traces, i KNOW there are more than 4 visitors/day in my stream, but the script tells me so. i am not sure if this influences the statistics as well
- i assume germans, and europeans maybe are not that open in general, or have problems sharing thoughts in public / online ( i had mostly american friends at flickr through 365 etc). i know that some people think "why should i write this in your comments when i can talk to you on the phone or so - i can tell you cause it helps others as well)
- a lot of people don't know how to use the features, because of an overload maybe. i have seen a lot of people not using albums at all. when i visit someone new, i check their profile to read about them, then look at their albums to see if there are some interesting things, self-portraits or soemthing. on the other hand, if new people come visit me in the "wrong moment" they will find a lot of uninteresting screenshots, kidpix or metal-music, what will probably make them disappear in a second and they will never come back. if they had a chance.- no if I had a chance to decide what my homepage shows, and how my albums are sorted, wow that would be so great... don't you think
- some people post hundreds of pictures a day, so following your friends' new posts is a hard job sometimes. i will tell you how I do that later, there are a few ways but i see room for improvement as well. making it easier to stay in touch and informed about what your contacts and like-minded people ar doing.
- time is rare for everybody , you have to assign priorities where to go and leave comments
- the ones that have added me as a friend are not really interested

running out of thoughts now and getting tired but...

 

Groups are announced for September 17th, that is next monday

i am so excited...

i wonder if this will change soemthing here...

would like to hear your thoughts if you would like to share and have time! :)

One thing.... one request i have

if you have any idea or if you are one of those not commenting (i don't mean my stream only, this is a general question), you'd help me a lot if you give me a hint why you don't. you know... thinking ain't easy at times. knowing is better than thinking wrong. i am trying to understand, and it is such a relief when you finally understand something even if it might hurt. trust me

why is this important to me?

cause i learned that my pictures and words, my openess, my honesty, my caring is helping people deal with their own shit. it's not so much about myself. dialogue is important, communication is important, sharing is. that's why i am posting this, not because i am down because of this or so fuckin self-centered or something. :)

final word: i love this place! and i am glad i found it... :)

 

 

 

when the group feature is launched here i am planning to create or join these if they are already there:

- Funny me  aka "Shtoopidity" ( funny self-portraits, or portraits showing yourself to make us all laugh a lil more! )
- Worldwide food and drinks ( i found it very interesting to see international food pictures and recipes and all that when i started this group at flickr )
- Ipernity NRW or RSK or Troisdorf or Sieglar ( local based Ipernity members / pictures from our hometown / area / district )
- Ipernity Germany / Cologne...
- pl0gbar.de
- Depression / Bilpolar ( for therapy reasons, expressive sharing, forums, thoughts, the deeper things, get together of those who feel alike and are looking for help, for those that feel alone with themselves, for the lost souls, to manage pain and sorrow, came to know that it helps a lot of people that are not able to express lie others, or to encourage others to start make pictures and share thoughts, dreams, hopes, love  no need to post, you can just look and see or read along if you like)
- Clouds ( i love clouds )
- Flower Macros ( i love flowers and macros, guess there will be thousands of groups like that :) )
- Kids ( must be careful with this because of sick minded weirdos, probably invite only )
- Emo / Metal ( some music related stuff )
- Web2.0 news ( screenshots , links and all the geeky stuff )
- Self-Portrait addiction / Expressive Self-Portraits / creative / of a different kind  ;) or something like that
- lyrics
- zeitgeisty ( creative commons support )
- ecards
- barcamps ( germany, all, cologne, we'll see )
- german son with an american mother :) just kidding.
- ...

do YOU have plans , wishes, want to help me administrate these groups?
any suggestions? want to join? want ME to join yours? Hope i  see you around there somewhere.