Only a few years ago, we would hold our personal photographs of holidays in an album in our homes. They would only come out when our nearest and dearest visited us and we’d show them where we’ve been, what we saw and what our accommodation looked like.
Photos from birthday parties or weddings may be shared a little more by email, or by providing physical copies to those that were also there.
Would we dream about making those same, very personal photos available to other friends who perhaps would otherwise never get to see our photos, friends from yesteryear or acquaintances?
These days, it seems the answer is yes. With Facebook, Google+ and others, its almost our first thought when we download our digital photos from our cameras and phones to our computers. I do it all the time – download to the PC, then upload a selection (based on how I look in them) to Facebook. I mean my privacy settings are quite tight, but even then there would be more than 100 people who would see my new photos on their Facebook news feed.
Strange how things change so fast and how things that weren’t even considered before suddenly become the ‘done’ thing.
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