When you spend time with friends or family members, it's not uncommon for more than one person to take photos, resulting in separate groups of photos stored on individual phones; this is where the Flock app comes in. The Flock app, created by Bump Technologies in California, makes consolidating photos a piece of cake by allowing people to share their photos in a single album.
The free Flock app does so by determining which of your Facebook friends are in the photos you've taken and then creates a shared album of the event with your photos and theirs (and you have complete control over which photos are shared). All you have to do is take photos with your phone as you normally would and enable geotagging. Further, the Flock app can create shared albums of photos you've taken before you installed the app, thereby working backwards, as Springwise describes.
What's Driving This Trend
- Photo-consolidating Tools
- The Flock app revolutionizes the way friends and family share photos by consolidating them into a single album.
- Social Media Integration
- The Flock app leverages Facebook connections to automatically include friends in shared photo albums.
- Geotagging Technology
- The Flock app utilizes geotagging to organize and categorize photos taken at specific locations.
Who This Affects Most
- Social Networking
- The Flock app disrupts the social networking industry by providing a seamless photo-sharing experience.
- Mobile Apps
- The Flock app taps into the booming mobile apps market by offering a convenient solution for sharing photos.
- Photo-sharing
- The Flock app introduces a disruptive innovation in the photo-sharing industry by simplifying the process of creating shared albums.
