I'm going to add: Flickr Loses to Facebook.
Just about every photo website loses to Facebook. No, I don't mean the quality of the photographs being displayed, nor the ease of sorting and arranging the photographs. I don't mean whether the photographs are artistic and good, and I don't mean if it is easy to search for photos related to the same central topic. If those metrics were important, Facebook would be dead last.
Instead, Facebook matters by the one metric that matters: face time. More people view my pictures on Facebook than on Smugmug and Flickr. I don't have Picasa Web, but I have no doubt that Facebook beats Google's Picasa Web by page view as well.
It saddens me, but I am seriously considering NOT renewing my Smugmug subscription in October. This is a big deal because as the first person in Canaan church to subscribe to Smugmug, I got many of you to sign up, and it cascaded to several more folks. I see the activities dry up over the years.
I'm also thinking about this blog too. Too few people read these contents from the blog itself. Had I not linked it to Facebook, most people won't be reading this at all.
Friday, May 20, 2011
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Problem: who owns your pictures at the end of the day? With FB, not you.
Alex is right, although the rights and ownership issues are better than they used to be. FB still reserves rights to your photos but only to the audience that you allow to see your photos. It used to be that they reserved general rights to use your photos everywhere.
If not for the fact that Smugmug powers the photos on my website I probably wouldn't renew either.
I still love smugmug. I like the organizational aspect of it. I hardly post any pictures to FB at all.
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