Social networking is huge. You will hardly meet someone who is not networking on some social networking site. The problem is that not everyone is on the same network. You’ve got some friends on FaceBook, some on MySpace, and some following you on Twitter. Do you really want to upload the same photos to three or more different places every time you take pictures?
An option is an image hosting service. This type of website allows users to upload images for free and allows the user to create albums of pictures when they join. A single link is provided for the user to share on all their networking sites, to send in email and to embed on their own websites. The way it works is that a user will use the upload tool provided on any site that hosts images. You can upload one by one or an entire album at a time. From there the site spits out a few links to either email, embed or use for social networking. Some sites offer special features to allow recipients of the shared albums to comment on pictures. The user can put together a photo blog. And on some sites, remote uploading is possible to upload images on the fly from a camera phone or Iphone.
Our society loves to share our lives and especially our pictures, with friends and family around the globe. Social networking and image hosting sites have made it easy to keep in touch and up to date on our loved ones. Grandmothers can watch their grandchildren grow up from miles away or even from another country and they can do it in real time via digital images and these types of websites. Friends can share memories from vacations and events and lovers can share romantic pictures from a honeymoon or night out. It connects our world in a way that only technology can.
To find the right type of hosting service for you, do some research and find one that offers the features you want like being able to upload multiple photos at once, user friendly, a large bandwidth and free of charge. Make sure the site operates on a safe server and is user name and password protected. And remember that any image you post on the internet is out there for the public to see. Use discretion when posting pictures and only put up images that you feel proud for anyone to see.
