Flickr?

I have looked into Flickr and I am totally lost!
I was guided to different pages, to do this and that, to open accounts, to link accounts, to send emails to differents accounts, then I forgot what I was doing and what for in the first place!
what's more, the emails I sent couldn't be received by my other accounts!
now I feel it's a bit of a waste of time, I spent about 2 hours on those stuff, but so far, no results. especially those emails, are they lost of hijacked? what will happen if someone else got it?
so far, i can't see anything in my yahoo account inbox, what a mystery. i am thinking of, shall i give up? as i found i am not alone. we are not full-timers, we've got loads of duties, at work & at home. even if we finish all those steps, what are we going to do with that?