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Best Sites for Students: Photo Sharing

November 9th, 2006 by Eric

Never before in history have so many photos been made on a daily basis. The prevalence of digital cameras, and the low costs associated with their use have created an influx of budding photographers. With so many photos being taken, the next step is showing them off to your friends. The number of photo sharing sites increases constantly, but as with anything else, some are far better than others. Some of the best are listed below.

Flickr
An extremely popular photo sharing site with great social aspects. Much like a social networking site, Flickr lets you set up a personal profile with all your favorite books, music, and movies. Your favorites then turn into links that list other users with the same interests. Tagging images and adding notes provides more ways of linking content together. Friends can add notes and comments to images as well. You can post images to blogs, and create RSS feeds for others to subscribe to. Flickr recently added location tagging of images which allows for browsing based on where the image was taken.

Facebook
While not a standalone photo sharing site, Facebook has photo album functionality built-in. Tight integration with the other social networking aspects of the site is the greatest benefit of this method. Facebook allows you to tag the people in your pictures and automatically adds the image to those people’s profile.

Zooomr
A more recent entry to the photo sharing space, Zooomr has been receiving a fair amount of attention lately. Similar to Flickr, but with added functionality. You can add a lot of metadata about the image, and geotagging (location) of the image is made quite easy. Tagging images is super easy and can be done inline without going to another page. Zooomr also has larger upload limits than Flickr.