[heleph]

I've got ten years of photos on Flickr and have been a paying subscriber almost that long.

For me my Flickr is my story of the past ten years: moving to the UK, share housing, meeting my husband, getting married, many fun holidays, having my son. What's important to me is the curation of my story, so features around automatically uploading photos and making albums are not important to me.

The other thing I used to like about Flickr was thoughtful community of people who created beautiful photos. There are still many beautiful photos to look through on there, but to be honest it's less important to me now than it used to be. I'm not really looking to reach out and make new friends in the way I was in 2004. My early photos were almost all public. My current ones are almost all friends and family only.

I probably would be open to considering another service if there was somewhere else I could keep my memories that was as good, but the people who are interested in the detail of my life are already on Flickr and the service is good enough that I can't really be bothered to move. I don't mind that it's not where the cool kids hang out.