The other day I signed up for a Flickr account but I haven’t uploaded any photos yet. I know its supposed to be amazing and innovative in how it displays photos in a “stream” with “tags” rather than through galleries, and it has some nice Flash-based slideshow stuff, but I don’t really get the point of it. Why are bloggers who know enough to be able to set up their own galleries flocking to lock up their photos on Flickr’s servers?

Is it just that the community nature of it (commenting, bookmarks, etc.) is what makes it so amazing? Someone please explain the point of it to me, cause I don’t get it, just like I don’t get all of the Friendster-type sites. Is Flickr a fad or is there really something to it?