I've been using Flickr for awhile and think it's kind of fun. I use it for family pictures - haven't taken many lately (lots of the kittens, of course!) but also have some I scanned from a powerpoint show my family did awhile ago. I took a picture of one of our displays and of one of my co-workers. (No, my co-worker is not the penguin.)
I also use the photo utility in Facebook and I do miss the ability in Facebook pictures to tag the elements/people in a picture. There, you can tag each person so that when you hover over someone with the mouse, that person is identified. It doesn't seem that you can do that with Flickr or Picasa.
Libraries have really started using Flickr - posting pictures of programs, winners of contests, their buildings, etc. The library system where I work has been doing that for some time.
So far I've kept my photos public because I tend not to use my entire name. Someone has to know my "alias" or, be able to guess that it's me if they come across it. If they know me well enough to guess from my alias, it's probably fine that they see the pictures. It's possible to set them to private if I wished to. I haven't posted anything that's going to damage my reputation!
I loaded some photos in Picasa to see what's different. So far, not enough to make me prefer one over the other, but that's another post. (The "Challenge" you know!)
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