After every holiday, evening or social occasion, those who took photos with their cameras or mobile phones usually publish them on Facebook. Facebook's problem is that photos are usually visible to everyone and someone may not be happy with them. For example, if you took photos of a family dinner, you probably wouldn't want all friends and strangers to see them while, conversely, the "crazy" photos of a party would be better not to show them to parents or other family members. Both with Facebook and with other sites it is possible to show photos to friends and relatives by publishing them on the internet, in private mode .
Even if no one does, you can publish photos on Facebook in a private form leaving only a few selected friends visible.
When you upload a photo or album from your Facebook diary, you can change the sharing option located next to the Publish button and choose the personalized mode to write the names of the selected people who will be the only ones who can see the photos uploaded (list names can also be written if Facebook friends have been grouped into lists).
This way of sharing photos, however, has a major flaw: each person with whom they see the photo can then share the photo with friends or publicly, making any effort to make it private vain.
To find better and more private ways to send or share photos via the internet, there are still other sites or apps that work better .
1) iCloud (only on iPhone) allows you to upload photos online and share albums with other people, also giving them the opportunity to participate by adding more photos. While the app works very well, the flaw is that if you use a free account there is only up to 5 GB space for all photos and videos saved online. On the Apple website, the guide to share photos privately with iCloud.
2) Google Photos is clearly the best app for creating private or shared albums, also with the possibility of letting other people participate in adding images. Everything is free and there are no limitations to adding photos or videos as written in the guide to create shared and collaborative albums with other people.
3) 23Snaps is a site and app for Android, iPhone and Windows that allows you to share photos in private, even of children, so that they are visible only by a small circle of family and friends.
4) Cluster is one of the best known online apps for iPhone and Android for sharing private photos with small groups of people and special occasions. It works very similar to a standard social network, with notifications, comments, likes.
5) OneDrive is the Microsoft cloud that can be used by everyone for free to upload any type of file. The photographs are organized in galleries and it is possible to send the links of the galleries to other people to show them the images. When you upload a photo to Onedrive it remains in its original size, it is not compressed or resized. If you then use Windows 10 you can use the Onedrive application and see all the shared photos without loading the site, directly from the Start screen. You can access the photos uploaded to OneDrive from practically anywhere, from computers or mobile phones, through the account.
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6) Like Onedrive, there are also other cloud storage sites where you can upload files to the internet such as Google Drive and Dropbox.
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7) Flickr, despite declining in popularity in recent years, was renewed in 2013 and remains one of the best sites to upload photos and share them online mainly because it offers a free space of up to 1 TB for photos and videos.
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8) Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are the most famous messaging apps, where you can make groups of people and share photos in private, so you can keep them in chat. The advantage of Facebook Messenger, compared to Whatsapp, is that photos are always kept online and recoverable even if you change your phone or delete them from memory. Much better than Whatsapp and Messenger is definitely Telegram, where photos are saved in the cloud and are not lost even if you change your smartphone or use Telegram from a PC.
9) Shutterfly is a different way of sharing photos because it allows you to create small mini photo sites that can remain private.
The creation of a web page with Shutterfly is easy and very intuitive, giving the possibility to customize it in graphics and style.
Shutterfly is also one of the best sites to share private videos that are visible online only to friends
10) Photobucket, the popular photo site, provides a service called Photobucket Stories where you can share photos like in a photo book.
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11) IMGUR is the main site for uploading photos on the fly to be shared on the internet with a direct link that can also be used on blogs and forums.
