dimanche, novembre 11, 2007

Free Photo Hosting sites

I am *officially* disappointed with the Internet.

More specifically, free photo-hosting sites. BECAUSE, Yahoo Photos used to allow unlimited storage/uploading but has ceased to exist since they deciding to drop some major dough on FLICKR and close the prior. I'm sure the folks at FLICKR are new owners of million dollar mansions and too-fast-too-furious cars now. Good for them but BOO for us common folks.

Under the pretense of receiving an unimaginably awesome Flickr account when they transfered all my years of photos from Yahoo, they gave us all only a trial of the Flickr's pro account. It seems at first very similiar to Yahoo photo's free unlimited blahblah blah, not to mention you get Flickr's cool uploading tools and other great User Interfaces. But remember, the trial is only for 3 miserable months. After that, they only allow you to display 200 photos, while the others are kept in deepfreeze untouchable storage unless you pay like 20 bucks a month. Duh. I rather give the money to my neighbor's kid.

Another friend experienced an ultimatum. Her photos ALL got DELETED from her Kodak online photo host because she hasn't ordered any prints for a year. Until she emailed the management and ordered a bunch of prints, they promised to *return* those pics back. That's nothing short of a blackmail, right?

I AM complaining about not being able to obtain some good old free shit anymore in exchange for some annoying flashing web banners (which I might even be invovled in the creation.)

So what to do? I am too lazy to sign up for all the other seemingly deceiving free-for-all photo sites and get my data sold to sleazy companies who will then blast me with promising SPAMs about my non-existent failing penis.

If YOU have been using something good, something acceptable and most importantly, something free, give me a holla. Or better, let me know how you've been secretly stashing all those photos and never got caught. Spread the love around a little. It's officially the holiday season.

Now, don't just sit there. Help save my planet.

1 commentaire:

shrly a dit…

hey babe...
dun be sooo disheartened...
that's just how the world works... anyway i've switched to shutterfly. so far so good.. still keeping my fingers crossed.