Mar 31, 2011 16:40 GMT  ·  By
Flickr updates its sharing options to keep up with the most popular platforms
   Flickr updates its sharing options to keep up with the most popular platforms

Flickr has gradually become the favorite service used to share one's images and to show off photography skills to visitors from all over the world. This task has just gotten easier since several new sharing options have been recently introduced. Due to the new changes, users will simply need to upload their files to Flickr, then publish them on the platform(s) they choose without needing to re-upload them again.

In other words, rather than being able to share photostreams only via email, members now have the possibility to use other social networks as their destinations.

Flickr supports sharing sets as well as individual photos, whereas until now one could only share photostreams, thus offering more freedom to all those who want to show off only certain creations.

Among other newly-implemented innovations one could also mention the fact that users can share non-public content with their Facebook buddies, and the photos available to them will not even need to be made public on Flickr.

Those who do not have privacy issues can configure their Flickr account to automatically publish their public photos to their Facebook feed.

Since Facebook is not the only place one can share photos on, Twitter is also supported, along with Tumblr.

To keep the site as up-to-date as possible, Flickr has announced that they have dropped support for various existing blogs so as to make room for the newer and trendier ones.

All these modifications were a natural consequence of the growing popularity of Facebook and Twitter, while Tumblr is also on its steady way to claim a comfortable spot in the microblogging platform world.

It seems that Flickr plans even more changes to their platform in the near future, therefore more news is bound on emerge on this subject soon.

For the moment, we can only wait to see which are the surprises the site has in store for us, and we probably will not be disappointed.