for artsy/documentary photos with no people or pets in them, i still get more feedback on flickr than facebook. i've put a bit of effort into gathering flickr acquaintances over the years though, and few of my real acquaintances are into obscure public art or whatever strange thing i am interested in this week.
While I agree on the postive feedback issue, my concern is the terms of service that are spelled out by facebook - http://www.facebook.com/legal...
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
@joshuac makes the key point that had me bring down my FB albums, delete them before deleting my account. Flickr is better when IP matters, like photos taken during client user research.
I don't see how Facebook replaces Flickr's system of tags, groups and sets, which I've found very useful. That's in addition to not wanting to give Facebook rights over my pictures.
I use the facebook gateway to Flickr [telling people I have new set and linking to it] and that has been working for me. That said, yeah, it's smaller and clubby on facebook but that is sort of okay with me. Depends what you're after i think. This year I vowed to say "thank you" to everyone who said "Happy birthday" using the facebook Happy Birthday Machine and it took the better part of a day.
Interesting article I read some time ago.
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
Besides, I steer clear of Facebook as much as I can. I treat it as that one friend that says he just contracted Ebola, and is just about to sneeze....