By: Violet Blue

Flickr seamlessly blends the proven successful social networking site model with the ability to share media in real time. For individual use on a sex site, this is a premium way to wank. Wanna hook up? Meet someone in a chat room. Want to “cyber” with them in real-time? Make a private room. Drag a hot photo onto their name, and they see it immediately. Images can also be shared with groups in IM discussions.

Like each of the other social networking sites, groups are formed in Flickr by people with a shared interest, such as “anal sex” or “rubber fetish.” Each group has its own homepage and discussion board. In the Flickr model each group will have one or more “channels,” a chat window available on the group’s homepage, where ongoing discussions are happening in real time. Individuals can branch off and make their own private chat channel.

Outside of groups, members can click on someone’s profile and send them an instant message, opening up a new window containing your IM communication, a window that can be moved around the screen. Other members can be added to the discussion by dragging and dropping their name from your personal contacts onto the discussion window.

The platform makes it as easy as possible for the consumer; users only need Flash to operate the real-time functions – it all happens in the browser window and the user does not need to download any software. There are no system requirements for Flickr; all is needed is a Web browser.

Contact between individuals happens in a hierarchy that each person can organize in their profile – contacts are ranked in order of intimacy and importance. In Flickr-speak, an “acquaintance” is a casual contact and the most intimate contact would be a “soul mate,” a friend that gets to see all the good stuff.

[via Fleshbot]

flickr, friendster, sex, social networks

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