Keyword: relationships

As I head out to China, a few quick thoughts on my first year at Ipernity. Yes, it has been a year since I joined the Ipernity Club. Time seems to have passed so quickly that it is difficult to believe that it actually has been a year. Overall, my experience has been a rewarding one. The combination of an evolving and dynamic community of photographers and a responsive Ipernity team have created an environment that is conducive to personal growth as a photographer, building and sustaining rel…

It always takes some time before one get used to what is the "local culture" on some social media community. Or, it takes some time to change how people understand the local culture. At good old, soon to be closed My Opera community (where I came from), there were only one level of relationship. Peeps were either "friends", or then they were not. Although, one could also collect a list of favorites there, which is presumable one way to "follow" what is going on around. This "friends" level of…