Why do people use Facebook 'Photos'?
Posted by Sean Joudry | Posted in websites | Posted on 1:27 PM
I've been thinking of backing up old photos recently, and began looking at different photo hosting services on the web. During this, I started to ask what the purpose of Facebook's photo hosting service is.
Facebook does not allow high quality images to be posted, it scales the pictures down to a mere 604 x 453 resolution. For those out there who are backing up images for archival purposes are not going to find what they want with Facebook, anything below 1024 x 768 is poor, even that resolution is low in terms of images.
So does the average Facebook user not care about the quality of the images they post on Facebook, or do they not realize how much the resolution is shrunk down? There are much better services out there which host high quality photos, like Photobucket. Alas, most have a restricted amount of photos a user can upload, whereas Facebook does not.
The main reason most users take advantage of Facebook's photo hosting service is likely to share images with friends. Facebook has roped in younger and older generations alike. This unity of people all on a single website allow mediums to be shared with large groups of people with relative ease. A person can post a picture of their dinner from last night, and their childhood-friend's mother can see it from the other side of Canada.
This brings up the question as to why would anyone care about a photo of their friend's dinner, a tree, or a sign along the road? Is it a way for one to feel relevant, or is it an obsessive need to document every moment of one's life? In an age of concern over waste, is there no concern over the waste of space on Facebook's servers, which are packed full of blurry photos taken while driving on a highway?
Personally, I use it to share photos of certain events, but I don't go crazy and post hundreds of random photos without looking at them beforehand. I would love for Facebook to boost up its image resolution, as it would be the perfect archival tool if it continued to have no image cap. Alas, if the users do not use the service for archiving purposes, it is unlikely that will happen.
So why do you use Facebook's photo service? To share photos with friends? To backup old photos? To keep records of old events?
Facebook does not allow high quality images to be posted, it scales the pictures down to a mere 604 x 453 resolution. For those out there who are backing up images for archival purposes are not going to find what they want with Facebook, anything below 1024 x 768 is poor, even that resolution is low in terms of images.So does the average Facebook user not care about the quality of the images they post on Facebook, or do they not realize how much the resolution is shrunk down? There are much better services out there which host high quality photos, like Photobucket. Alas, most have a restricted amount of photos a user can upload, whereas Facebook does not.
The main reason most users take advantage of Facebook's photo hosting service is likely to share images with friends. Facebook has roped in younger and older generations alike. This unity of people all on a single website allow mediums to be shared with large groups of people with relative ease. A person can post a picture of their dinner from last night, and their childhood-friend's mother can see it from the other side of Canada.
This brings up the question as to why would anyone care about a photo of their friend's dinner, a tree, or a sign along the road? Is it a way for one to feel relevant, or is it an obsessive need to document every moment of one's life? In an age of concern over waste, is there no concern over the waste of space on Facebook's servers, which are packed full of blurry photos taken while driving on a highway?
Personally, I use it to share photos of certain events, but I don't go crazy and post hundreds of random photos without looking at them beforehand. I would love for Facebook to boost up its image resolution, as it would be the perfect archival tool if it continued to have no image cap. Alas, if the users do not use the service for archiving purposes, it is unlikely that will happen.
So why do you use Facebook's photo service? To share photos with friends? To backup old photos? To keep records of old events?
why dontcha backup on DVD? in a few years you will copy them to blue-ray