Point, shoot, share: 10 alternatives to Instagram and Facebook
Remember the good old online photo album—you know, that URL with pictures and maybe some captions? For some mobile photography nuts, the big social networks like Facebook, Instagram, and even Flicker are just as passé. Today, if you share photos with friends and family online, a variety of new apps let you dodge the routine of posting to mega social sites.
Like the specialized search engines that popped up in the early days of the Web, specialty photo-sharing networks appeal to users who seek distinct features like extra privacy, voice captions, storytelling, and even ordering prints. Here are some cool ones we found.
23snaps keeps private pictures out of public view and helps you chart the growth and activities of your kids.
23snaps Family Journal—iOS, Android (free)
The biggest liability of popular networks like Facebook is the conflict they have between protecting users’ privacy and making money—the latter seems to preclude the former. For folks who don’t want their personal lives splattered across the Internet, 23snaps lets you share private photos with a close circle of associates.
While 23snaps will work for anyone, it was designed for parents who want to share a timeline of their kids’ growth and activities with close friends and relatives without opening the images up to the larger Internet. People who use 23snaps may or may not have Facebook accounts, but they can rest assured that photos in a 23snaps album will not leak out to the general public.
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