One of My Pictures Goes A Little Viral
On April 29, 2009, I attended a Giants game at AT&T Park and took this picture and posted it on the photo site Flickr:
The picture sat out there in the cloud somewhere, largely unviewed, until the day before yesterday, when I checked my Flickr stats and noticed that it had been viewed by 79 people. This has happened before with several of my pictures, when someone has used them on a web page for some purposes. This time, it looks like it somehow got posted by someone on a Tumblr blog. (For those of you not social-media savvy, Tumblr is a so-called “micro-blogging” platform; I set up a page just there more or less just because I could.) From that one post, it got posted and reposted and favorited and liked, and appears to have been reposted or liked more than 2,500 times.
A wonderfully useless thing, the Internet.
