If you’re like most of us, one of your biggest weaknesses is taking tons of pictures and keeping them on our cellphone. However, if one doesn’t download the pictures to their laptop or desktop, and the phone is either lost, damaged or stolen, the memories are lost forever.
Some folks have, and pay for, cloud storage. I think I have a certain amount of free cloud storage, but every time the phone tries to get me to buy more, I’m so cheap I don’t wanna pay for it. I’ve never read all the fine print that I agreed to when I got the phone and the photo storage situation, but sometimes I feel like these companies are holding my pictures hostage.
So I came up with an idea on how to get my memories back.
Facebook has a photo album option. I named the album ‘Grandkids’ and it’s only viewable by me and my daughter. Now as those photographic memories show up from the cloud, I share them to the Facebook album. A lot of the pictures I took of the grandkids, my daughter had never seen. Especially the ones I took when I was responsible for taking the kids to certain daytime activities. Others are pictures I took when I was on granny duty.
Some of my Facebook photo albums are visible to the public while others are restricted. I really enjoy that feature. I can control who can look at what. I have certain albums that are only visible to me. Some of my albums are labeled for specific items. I enjoy having the ability to look at photographic memories of a lot of my projects. I have documented images of my front yard restore — from when it was totally messed up because of so much work I had done, to how I got it looking almost the way I want.
Another advantage of organizing the pictures, is that it makes it easier to find a specific one. I usually spend 10-15 minutes a day organizing my pictures. It’s a small amount of time to pay to be able to have such memories easily recovered.