# Recommend a photo sharing site **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991 "2006-10-18T19:40:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/1 "2006-10-18T19:40:25Z")
I am a keen amateur photographer (well, mostly vacation pics and outings) and I want to be able to share some of my photos with my family back in England. I want to use one of the online photo sharing sites (like flickr) but I have no experience with them. I asked around at work but no one here really uses those sites so I turn to you, good people of the dope. What would you recommend and what would you steer clear of? ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/2 "2006-10-18T20:09:16Z")
I’ve used [Snapfish.com](http://Snapfish.com) the most. Easy to share and send, lets you save all your photos into albums, easy layout and the prints are great. They allow some restrictions on sharing, so not everyone and their brother can view your photos - only those you invite. [Shutterfly.com](http://Shutterfly.com) is more expensive and the prints don’t come out well at all. Their cropping sucks. [Ofoto.com](http://Ofoto.com) was fine, but snapfish won out. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/3 "2006-10-18T20:33:24Z")
I just switched [del]to Geico[/del] from Photobucket to Picasa. Photobucket changed recently for the worse. I rather like Picasa so far. There’s also Yahoo! Photos, MySpace, and LiveJournal. I don’t use myspace and the other two are mediocre. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/4 "2006-10-18T20:44:07Z")
Flickr is nice. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/5 "2006-10-18T21:19:36Z")
Still being discussed in a thread [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=392220) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/6 "2006-10-18T21:55:39Z")
I’m cool with Yahoo! They just upgraded it and it’s easy to do. I’m kinda klutzy with stuff like that and so far it’s fine. ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/7 "2006-10-18T23:40:50Z")
Thanks for the link Shoshana, I will check out that thread. I did a search but I did not put in the correct terms to find that thread, so I started my own. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-photo-sharing-site/376991/8 "2006-10-19T16:44:26Z")
Try [dphoto.com](http://dphoto.com). Fabulous interface, however from the intro on their site, it seems to me they won’t be a free host forever. Definitely check it out though.