Online Digital Photo Sharing
Photo sharing is a popular activity in social networking and has become a normal online activity. There exist many photo sharing sites offering free and paid services on public and private networks. This section explains Photo Sharing On-line and it’s many uses including Photologs.
The Benefits of Photo Sharing Services
Most photo sites offer a place to share your photographs online publicly to everyone or selectively to groups, friends and family.There are many services on the Internet that each offer similar services. Some services offer additional extras; Flickr allows a member to send photos to Facebook and Twitter automatically, Picasa allows members to install a desktop application on their personal computer to arrange and update their account. Benefits include:
- The ability to create albums.
- Slide-show creation.
- Print photographs.
- Functions to send easily to various contacts.
- Create various on-line galleries.
- Tag photos. (A tag is a descriptive word you associate with that photo. In this case it can be a category, so when you return to the site and search for that category it will appear).
- Very easy to send a link or photo to a friend.
- On-line albums that can be retrieved if your computer dies or get stolen.
- Relationships on-line based around similar photos or experiences.
Photo sharing on Blogs (Photoblogs, Photologs)
Photographs can also be viewed in a blog, check out this photoblog from David Bell. Running a photoblog requires more effort to get your content online than using a photoservice but it can be worth the effort. If you are a professional photographer, a photoblog is a great way to get your content recognised as part of a wider online marketing campaign. To learn more about blogs.
The Future of Photo sharing
New Technology is making Photosharing more accessible and easier to do. With a mobile (cell) phone it is possible to take a picture, download it to a site and then send it to many friends in seconds. Digital Cameras are relatively cheap and accessible to most people and web cams come integrated in newly manufactured computers or are very cheap to buy. These factors and increased technical awareness has allowed more and more individuals to use digital photosharing.
The ability to create digital photographs easily is positive news for the Photosharing services, but other Social Networking competitors want to lure visitors to their services. The reach of the Social Networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter has included photo sharing capabilities.
A number of Photosharing sites have begun to use applications which allow photographs to be integrated into Twitter and Facebook. The survival of Photosharing sites will be niche markets where they can offer a superior service in comparison (e.g. Professional photography). The quality of photos on Facebook can not currently compare to sites which offer tools and services (e.g. printing high quality pictures).
Forms Of Social Media
Each form of Social Media listed below has a link explaining the method of use and how people, bloggers, and Small Business can use these technologies.
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