Starting on Adam and Becky’s second birthday (one month from today), new photographs of them will not be posted here. They will instead be posted, privately, to Flickr, a service to which I’ve already introduced you. (Now would be a good time to sign up, if you haven’t already, and get yourself added to my list of friends.)
The reasons for this are pretty obvious: I choose to live my life fairly publicly, and share a lot of my personal information (more than is interesting, really) online. But that’s my choice. As my kids grow up, I have to respect the fact that they may or may not agree with me that this kind of exposure is innocent and enjoyable. Right now, I have no idea who’s using these pictures, or for what. While that, to a certain extent, is okay with me, I’ll be happier in the long run if I have control over who has access to their pictures.
I am a little concerned that there are people here who fall between "trusted friend" and "random stranger": Christie’s online quiliting friends, certain coworkers who would never admit they check my site, extended family… they won’t all get into Flickr, they might not be bold enough to ask for access, and I don’t necessarily want to cut them out, but I think that’s what I have to do.
So, to summarize: if you get your free, easy to set up, and very cool account at Flickr set up, you won’t miss anything.
Flickr is cool – love the community aspects. I do find it and all photosites where you have to upload pics a bit too time consuming when I want to share a bunch of pics… I just got a new Nikon D70 and my avg file size if 3.5MB!
I found qurio – a secure p2p. I created and shared this album of 70 pics (over 250MB) from my kid’s soccer game in less than 2 minutes. http://davemckg.quriophotos.com/peerServer/guest/explode.jsp?id=5878 . I had been using Shutterfly to share my pics – did a little experiment – this same album of pictures took 1 hour 36 minutes to upload in Shutterfly.
If you take a lot of pictures and want a fast way to share, it’s a nice choice (esp considering it’s free). You can also allow guests to download full versions of your pictures. If you want to try it – you will see a download for free button next to my pics.