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What is Photo Sharing

• Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (publicly or privately).

• Photo Sharing is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images.

Online Photo Galleries

• Online Photo Galleries are setup & managed by individual users.

Photo Sharing Sites

• Webshots• Smugmug• Flickr• Photobucket• Picasa• Shutterfly

Image Hosting Services• An image hosting service allows

individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image.

• When an image file is accessed, the image host is capable of logging the date and the general numeric internet address of the request.

Difference between Image Hosting and Photo

Sharing Services• Image Hosting services may or may not

provide photo sharing applications.• Image hosting accomplishes a digital

storage-based function. Photo sharing accomplishes a digital publishing and distribution-based function.

• Photo sharing publishes digital photographs either publicly or privately. Image hosting does not necessary publish photos publicly.

Social Media and Photo Sharing

• Photo Sharing is the one of the important tool of Social Media.

• People can share their wedding, birthday party, other celebration photographs with their dear ones free of cost.

• Photo Sharing sites can only share photos but Social Media Sites can share blogs, videos, articles, bookmarks, photos…

Photo Sharing Social Media Sites

• Facebook• Myspace• Socialnetworksoftware• Multiply• Wallpost• Faces• Bebo