Online File Sharing

As an effect of globalization many people are moving from one country to another for the sake of their career. Also, due to ease of communication, you can make friends across the globe whom you may never meet in your life. You may feel like sharing your joyous moments with these long-distance friends or family members who live far away from your place. However, you may find it tough to share your photographs or videos through post.

This problem is solved by social networking sites that have various features enabling us to share any type of file with your friends and acquaintances, be it an image file or a video or sounds or text. You can share pictures, movies, music and any other kind of files with any other member of a social networking site where they are added as your friends. You can also share your views on these sites. Now anytime you want, you can show your favourite teacher the first handwriting of our child.

It is true that sharing files over the Web isn't a new concept. This is possible through emails. So, where lies the difference between emails and social networking websites?

In case of emails, the file sharing option is constrained by the file size allocated for attachment. But in a social networking site, numerous pictures with huge file sizes can be uploaded easily. These sites also offer the option to place picture files in different albums of your choice. You can then invite your relatives and friends to view them.

Your friends and relatives can view your unforgettable moments anytime at any place. When you show your photo album to your friends sitting face to face, they will usually make some remarks about your photographs, and you can have a good time with your friends. The creators of social networking websites have kept this human behaviour in mind.

When you upload your pictures to these websites and share your online albums with your friends, your friends get the option to put in their comments, just like in a real situation. This feature gives completeness to the albums as your friends get the scope to share their feelings with you.

Sharing comment on photographs is also an easy way to judge the quality of a picture giving a budding photographer the scope to improve his/her skills. These websites with photo sharing options also keep in mind the privacy of users. Suppose you don't want to share a particular photograph with a particular friend, then you have the option to select only those friends who can view your album, not everyone in your friends list.

You can also share your favourite music with your friends and relatives through these social networking sites. This feature has a dual utility. First, you can upload your favourite music files and can share them with your preferred people. And second, you can also upload tracks that you have created and invite others to share their comments on it. Thus, you'll be able to get a feedback on your music and its acceptance.

Similarly, you can also upload your favourite videos and share them with your friends. However, before uploading any video, keep in mind the prescribed policies of the social networking site regarding the video content.