Blaring into the void

"Magnolia" (Nikon D700, 1/200s @ ISO280, 300mm, f/8)

Yesterday late in the evening, I submitted this photo to the Getty Images Artist Picks flickr group. Some 8-9 hours later, there are sixteen more pages (with 30 new photos each!) in that group. Well, I know that flickr groups are a waste of time... but in my opinion, that's more than ridiculous, that's insane.

That group has almost 12,000 members. But no one cares what's in the group pool! 8 hours after submitting the above photo, it still has 0 views. I don't care about that, but it shows one thing typical for the "social" web 2.0: people are blaring a plethora of information (here: photos) into the void of the internet. And no one really cares, because it's far too much to take notice, anyway. What a waste of time and resources.