Test Drive 2 #2 Photosharing

Holstentor at night (Lubeck). Original photo by Flavouz http://www.flickr.com/photos/flavouz/

I uploaded 3 personal photos to Flickr - my dog, my daughter's horse and an old painting I happen to be proud of - but I restricted access to family and friends because they aren't great photos.
It was quite easy to upload the photos but seemed to take forever.
Things I noted during the exercise:

the option of saving old family photos online is a real asset for family historians. How often have I heard people bemoan the fact that old family photos have been accidentally thrown out when someone died. No dust, no boxes, no fading or yellowing and freely available to all the family or the world as you choose.

Flickr and similar sites are just amazing resources for finding some truly superb images to brighten up emails, blog postings, etc.

thanks to the generosity of the image owners Creative Commons goes a long way to overcoming some of the problems associated with Copyright for those of us who don't want to use the images for commercial purposes

Flickr makes provision for people to restrict the use of images of them for commercial or unapproved purposes However, I still think that there is huge potential for invasion of privacy. If you don't actually own the image/s you could be featured on the Internet without even being aware of the fact.