Greg Hartnett

This post could alternatively be called “Flickr, and the Power of Social Networking” but that wouldn’t get quite the attention. Before reading further, see Wikipedia’s entry for Goatse to decide if you’d like to continue.

A post from Zawodny’s link blog hit my RSS reader yesterday. A quick one-liner reading “Flickr: Photos tagged with firstgoatse: hahaha… what an awesome use of flickr :-)” intrigued me, so I followed the link and had a good laugh.

I was a little surprised to find out this morning that Jared had never heard of the Goatse, and thought it would be fun to hit him with the link, and grab a quick photo. His reaction was fantastic, so I decided to upload his picture, joined the Goatse group, and added Jared’s picture to the group.

Within an hour, the picture had been viewed 530 times! Sooo…. I told a friend “throw on a BOTW t-shirt cuz I wanna take your picture while looking at a really gross pic”. I gave a brief history of the Goatse, and she was game. Once again, her pictures came out hilarious, so I added added them. With the enhanced features of Flickr’s notes, I was able to add a **shameless plug** note with our domain name.

As of this writing (approx two hours after posting the pics), Jared’s picture has been viewed 1143 1460 times and the two of Liz (1 and 2 ) have been seen a combined 1230 times. So with some creative product placement, I was able to have fun with some friends, and get the BOTW name in front of thousands of eyeballs.

Amazing, this internet thing….

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