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Long gone are the days where families had their photos printed out and then carefully arranged in family photo albums. Within the last decade, family photo albums have nearly disappeared as new technologies have come along and revamped the way people keep their treasured memories. As wireless internet has become faster and faster, many people have started looking toward the internet for ways to store their precious photos. Whether you live in Seattle or Baltimore, now is the time to start using innovative technologies to store your family photos.
Often times, people use online photo storage services like Flickr or Picasa to upload, organize, and store their photo collections. Additionally, many people simply use a site like Facebook or Twitter to upload photos of their daily lives. The only things that anyone needs to take advantage of these services, is a home computer and a wireless internet connection, which makes this method of storing photos much easier than so many others. Before these online resources existed, many people used their computer or external hard drives to store their photo collections, but those are disadvantageous for many reasons. Not only do computers and hard drives take up a lot of physical space in your home or office, but the photos also take up a lot of electronic space that your computer or hard drive may not have to spare. By relying on an electronic form of storage, users slow their computers down.
Thankfully, increases in wireless internet speeds have encouraged many people to switch to online photo storage sites. The benefits of these sites are numerous. Firstly, these websites never fail so your pictures will always be there. Hard drives and computers can easily break, leaving you without being able to ever see your beautiful photos ever again. Secondly, you can easily access your photos from anywhere in the world as long as you have a wireless internet connection. There is no need to lug a hard drive or flash drive around with you just to show a few photos, especially because many of those resources can't hold many photos anyway. Thirdly, these photo storage sites also enable users to develop a sense of community with other users. People can share their photos with one another and join groups to share their photographic interests together.
If completely switching to online photo storage systems feels wrong to you, consider using those sites to make a digital photobook. People often get tired of looking at computer screens and sometimes want tactile things to hold in their own hands. That's where making a photobook online comes in handy. People who have speedy internet connections, such as 4G, are able to quickly upload their favorite photos to a website where they can then create a physical photobook. These sites enable users to rearrange and edit the photos until they are satisfied with the results. Before purchasing a physical book that will be printed, users can then view a mock-up of the final copy. These photobooks make create coffee-table-books, and are great conversation starters when people have strangers over in their homes. So whether you want to transition into the completely new realm of online photo storage, or whether you want to compromise between new technologies and old, there are plenty of great options available to you as long as you have a speedy wireless internet connection and some imagination.
