Photo sharing website is becoming more popular than ever. It is a great and easy way to store and share photos. There are advantages and disadvantages to photo sharing sites, just like everything else. There are many things to think about before putting your photos on these sites. Whatever you put on the internet can come back and haunt you, because even if you delete it someone else might have saved it before you deleted it. Another thing to think about is being careful when people are taking pictures of you. You never know who might have a picture of you or what they will do with it. If they put it on a photo sharing site and you may not want it on there you might be out of luck, because they may be friends with your boss on this photo sharing site and then your boss will be able to see all of their photos. So one thing to think about is, who’s getting pictures of you and make sure you are not doing something you wouldn’t want others to see. Some examples of photo sharing sites consist of Flickr and Photobucket are two of the top ones.
Disadvantages of photo sharing include, once you have published your photos anyone can access them. Most sites have privacy settings, but you can never be too sure. People can take your photos from your site and then they are out of your hands as to what they do with them. There are risks of putting photos online as with everything else in the world. Just because you have your photos saved on your sharing site, does not mean that you should not have a back up to those photos if they are precious to you. You never know with technology, they could be wiped out in a second and never retrieved back again. Advantages of having a photo sharing account are many photos can be shared at one time. The photos can be organized so each photo can be found very easily and quickly. Also, you can easily share photos with friends, family, and even for your job. It is great for those who live far away from each other and never get to see each other face to face.
Since photo sharing is becoming so popular, it’ll be interesting to see if people will ever quit printing photos and go all digital photos. Will one day everyone have those digital photo frames all over their houses playing instead of pictures in frames? It seems like that will never happen or be a long time from now, and that might be.
Disadvantages of photo sharing include, once you have published your photos anyone can access them. Most sites have privacy settings, but you can never be too sure. People can take your photos from your site and then they are out of your hands as to what they do with them. There are risks of putting photos online as with everything else in the world. Just because you have your photos saved on your sharing site, does not mean that you should not have a back up to those photos if they are precious to you. You never know with technology, they could be wiped out in a second and never retrieved back again. Advantages of having a photo sharing account are many photos can be shared at one time. The photos can be organized so each photo can be found very easily and quickly. Also, you can easily share photos with friends, family, and even for your job. It is great for those who live far away from each other and never get to see each other face to face.
Since photo sharing is becoming so popular, it’ll be interesting to see if people will ever quit printing photos and go all digital photos. Will one day everyone have those digital photo frames all over their houses playing instead of pictures in frames? It seems like that will never happen or be a long time from now, and that might be.
I like the concept of the photo sharing world. Flickr seems really interesting to me and I think I am highly interested in getting a Flickr account. But you are right, anybody can take my photos from online and things will be out of my hand. Something like this, it might be wise to start out slow until you have the hang of things and you make sure that your privacy account is how you want it.
ReplyDeleteAs for the whole photo frame situation, I like my picture frames setting out. I have always wanted a digital photo frame and someday I will have one, but I also love to scrapbook and I think printed pictures will hold a dear memory in that aspect. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that printing pictures will never leave us. They might go out of style compared to what it has been, but I think people will always be printing them off somewhere.
I like photo-sharing it helps our daughter share her pictures of her new baby with friends in Costa Rica, family across the globe and friends. I actually sent her the link for the blog so that she could learn more about Flickr. I did caution her to make sure that the images she posts have security attached so that her images of her daughter don’t end up in someone’s / an organizations brochure.
ReplyDeleteI often tell our children that once you post an item or photo online it is there forever so be sure to watch what is posted. Your comment about the same subject is right on the mark.
Kelsi -
ReplyDeletePhoto-sharing is very important to a lot of people, and that's why I think your information and reminders are key to taking care of photos and reputations. Obviously, the internet is not as secure as many of us think. It's hard to know what people have seen or copied. I'm pretty careful of what I do, and I think that more people should. Social networking sites are very public, and certain photos and comments could cause trouble. As for the digital photo frames, I wish I had one! I don't know how common and popular they will become. I think they need to be a little cheaper before that happens!