Flickr

Several of you have commented on the Flickr widget on my sidebar. The thing about that widget is that it isn’t mine. None of the photos shown on that widget are mine. I don’t even have any kind of membership in Flickr. I simply clicked the little box offered by WordPress to get the generalized feed.

I love the little Flickr widget. Most of the time.

Lately, I haven’t been loving it quite so much. Sure, it spruces up the place. Yes, it gives me a chance to check out images I would not other wise know about. But it has also thrown some stuff in my face I don’t really want on my blog.

In particular I’m thinking about the bloody man. It was some old, bald guy with red smeared all over him. Um… excuse me?

Now and then the nudity gets a little out of hand. I may not be PG-13 in my books, but this blog is, and will remain so even when I have a choice.

Also, now that I’m posting more of my own pictures I find the ones on Flickr make me look bad by comparison. I simply can’t compete with the professionals.

But I love my Flickr widget.

So my question is, what should I do about it? Keep it as it? Get my own account and have my own images, such as they are, in place of the general feed? Ditch it completely? What do you think?