I never used to take pictures, really never. But after getting married, things change - oh yea, you think you won't change but some things do. My brother and sister-in-law got me a Canon camera, small, quick, and has some cool features. So now I take a lot more pictures. Deal is, family and friends want to see the pictures and I don't want to email them all over.

So I signed up the with up and coming photo sharing service, Flickr. Flickr has tons of cool features, all my buddies use it, including Danny Sullivan, David Naylor, Tim Mayer. Yahoo bought them, yes, Yahoo has its own photo service named Yahoo! Photos. My brother uses Yahoo! Photos. But Flickr is Web 2.0, how can I go with anything else, they have tags and tons of AJAX features - common!

Getting non-tech savvy family members to sign up with Flickr is a pain! I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with my in-laws helping them sign up. My wife, well, I gave up with her.

To sign up with Flickr, you need to be invited to view photos. Then you need to decide if you ever signed up with Flickr in the past. If you have, was it before or after Yahoo bought them? If it was before, then try to remember your Flickr password, if it was after then you need to remember your Yahoo and Flickr passwords! If you didn't sign up, then you need to sign up first with Yahoo and then with Flickr.

Heck, everyone once upon a time signed up with Yahoo. So then you must remember your Yahoo ID and password. But no one does. So you sign up with Yahoo again, damn that ID has been taken, I took it, but I don't remember my password. So you make up a new ID that you won't remember. Then after you fill out all your info, you need to give them secret password recovery tips and enter in a security access code (what is that?). Finally, you created a Yahoo! account!!!!

Continue to view pictures at Flickr. Please sign up with Flickr the screen blinks at you! No!!! New Flickr account name and password need to be given. Finally, I think, you have a Flickr account.

Then explaining how to navigate to the photos you just put up. Um, I'm tired. And I bet this post doesn't even read well, being that I typed it within 3 minutes.

Yahoo, Tim, Flickr? Can we check off images from our collection and click "email to friend" like the other photo sharing services have?