Privacy is the key of online photo sharing
I agree, this might sound strange but consider online photo sharing in the private circle, when sharing photos with the family or with friends. Not everybody would be happy to have his “strange” face from the last party being made public and seen by everybody.
At KoffeeWare, we take privacy very seriously when it comes to KoffeePhoto.
First, you don’t have to share. Yes, KoffeePhoto manages and backs up your pictures. Why would you need to have to share them in order to benefit from backup? No, pictures managed with KoffeePhoto can simply be stored and backed up without having to share them. This said, you will still be able to access them online through your private, password protected page.
Second, when sharing, this does not necessarily have to imply public sharing. When sharing photos using KoffeePhoto, your fellows receive an invitation and can access the shared pictures on a specific, non public URL or on their own private page if they have a KoffeePhoto account.
Last, you can post your pictures on your shared page. This page is accessible to any one with whom you’ve shared pictures, through an invitation or through a link from your personnal blog. In the latter case, if your blog has a certain exposure, these pictures can be considered as being public and may even be crawled and indexed by search engines.
If public exposure is what you are looking for, don’t forget to properly name your album and picture for a better search engine indexing.
So, yes, privacy is the key of photo sharing. It is up to the user to define the level of privacy he requires.
Last but not the least, do not forget to read the photo sharing provider’s Privacy Policy…