Let me ask you this. For the past months, how many digital photos have you taken of yourself and your family? Perhaps you have been from a recent vacation and your camera is loaded with dazzling picturesque shots of the places you have just been. So you go straight to your computer, boot it up and download all of your photos there. But don't you think you would like to make some back ups or copies of them? You never know when your computer might crash.

Sure, you can use cd rom discs or flash disks to back up your pictures but don't you want to save it some place where you can easily retrieve it just as well and share it with your friends online? That is where free image hosting websites come very handy. Actually there are many other reasons to start having an account on one of these sites and here are a few of these reasons:

1. For back up purposes.

Just as what was mentioned earlier, creating copies of your photos is always a good idea. A wise idea especially when it is almost too easy, and even too frequently, that computers crash nowadays. If you have copies of your photos stored away, especially online, you can have greater peace of mind knowing that you can easily print out copies of your beloved pictures anytime that you want. Nothing is lost and everything is preserved for as long as you want.

2. It makes easy sharing with your friends and family.

With free image hosting websites, it becomes even so much easier for you to show off your pictures to your family and friends who may be miles away or even in other countries. You can give them access to your image hosting account, perhaps create a slideshow of your photos, and share them to your loved ones. There is no more need to email them your pictures separately, which can become very tiring and monotonous when you're making lots of email attachments.

3. Free up your hard disk space.

If you are shutter happy, chances are you have hundreds or even thousands of photographs stored in your computer. And add to that, if you have a digital camera with very high megapixel count, each of your photos are probably of big file sizes which is good because these will probably contain more details and better color saturation. But big files, especially in huge numbers, are not always a good thing for a computer. A computer for it to run better must have adequate free space in its hard disk. You can easily free up some space by saving your photos on free image hosting websites instead.

Now don't you think that it is about time that you make your photo sharing, organizing and keeping much easier to handle? There are a number of good image hosting sites you can choose from. Just pick one you are most comfortable using and you will be guaranteed to enjoy your memorable photographs for years and years to come.