Photo sharing

I have to admit, I have toyed with the idea of creating either a Flickr or a photobucket account.  I never really could see the benefit of doing it, so I didn't.  I see now.  If you want your digital pics safe somewhere so in case your harddrive explodes or heaven forbid, your house burns and all of your pics were on a hard drive, you are hosed.  I created a Flickr account last week and have decided that more than likely, I am going to upload our pics to the internet. It just takes motivation to sit down and do it!

I did some random searches for Louisville, Kentucky to see what I could find.  I looked up Las Vegas, Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and my favorite dog breed the Shiba Inu.  I found tons of pictures of everything I looked for.  For the average person who is looking to travel, looking to see what a particular dog breed looks like, (or wants to see pics of their favorite dog breed) or wants to see what pictures are available from or about their hometown, photo sharing websites offer the world to them.

For work purposes, Photo Sharing sites have a ton of uses.  We have patrons looking for a picture to add to their homework that they could use Photo Sharing sites for. Pictures from these sites could be used to spruce up a Power Point presentation. Someone could be creating a flyer for a service such as mowing lawns where they could find a nice picture to use. People could be on the Internet looking for cool places to visit where there are plenty of good photo opportunities or any number of other travel uses.  And tons of other things I'm not thinking of at the moment.