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Give me a photo sharing site that my kids use and I'm gone from FB.

Has to be easy-peasy. Clip save pics. No cloud crap. Open and see the latest post. See others' comments. End

I don't understand. How can you share photos online with "no cloud crap"? It's already pretty easy to set up your own private web server with photo gallery software, but very few users want the hassle.

I'm the voyeur.. Wishing to see what kids post (of their kids). And coworkers. I have access to their cloud, dropbox, google, etc... But it's too hard and more importantly not their platform of choice to share.

So FBs other stuff like news is not why we have FB. It's like turning in the Today show and hearing Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley at 7am to see my family's news, only. A morning habit. But i dont have to hear the news. Five minutes and I'm done.

>I'm the voyeur.. Wishing to see what kids post (of their kids).

That sounds really creepy if you phrase it this way.

The GP (in both senses) means this: they want it to be simple. So simple they are not aware of how it works. If they have to know about 'the cloud', 'sharing', 'syncing', where the photos are stored, etc., then it's not simple enough.

Cons: Choose another big company over FB: Google Photos

Pros: You only share with select people, you only get photos from whom you want

Not sure if I'm missing something but... Instagram?

Instagram is Facebook though.

Presents the question as to what functionality this would replace over fb then

Never understood it.. I know it sounds dumb.. But fb tied to a person. Instagram not necessarily..

Anyway.. My adult kids will decide when to migrate off FB.. And we will follow

What about an imgur style service?

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