Now more than ever, people are taking pictures. Food, cats, kids, memories, all sorts of things are photographed these days as mementos. People do this as one medium to share their life with others.
More and more social networking sites like Google+, Facebook, and Instagram have recognized the large interest in photo sharing. This has led us to a cool place in the online backup and storage world. Many Social Networking sites can be used to backup your photos through a mobile app that syncs photos from your smart phone to the website.
Picture of notice on Google+ App
Google+ was the first to offer a photo sync utility on your mobile device. By default it uploads images privately to your Google+ profile into an album called ‘Instant Upload’. From there you can choose to share them or leave them in the folder. It’s a great place to store images for later. The one of the great things about this features is that it backs up all of your photos. You never have to worry about syncing your phone to the computer.
Pros
- Automatic
- Download full res image
- Set to private
- Unlimited backup
- Free
Cons
- N/A
2. Facebook
Picture of the Facebook mobile app sync photos feature
Facebook, much like Google+, now has the option to sync photos to you profile. Enable this option to sync all of your photos from your camera roll to a private Facebook folder automatically. It does limit you to 2GB’s but it does keep a backup of your images.
Pros
- Automatic
- Download full res image
- Set To Private
- Free
Cons
- Limited to 2GB’s of backup
3. Instagram
Picture of uploaded pictures to Instagram
Instagram is to thank for the heavy image use on social networks these days. They are a social network 100% photo based. It’s a great platform for sharing photos with your friends. It keeps all of your photos but you can not download them from the site.
Pros
- Free
- Fun/easy to share images
Cons
- Manual upload
- No photo download (Does save to your camera roll on phone)
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Steven is a web developer and online technology expert. He has built global networks and websites for fortune 500 companies. A graduate of Georgia Tech in Chemical Engineering, he now happily spends his time building Joomla and WordPress websites as well as reviewing online backup services, web hosting and anything else that needs reviewing.