It's not like you can stick a floppy in your wallet and pull out it out every time you want to show pictures of the grandkids. Enter the wonderful world of photo-sharing Web sites. There are at least a dozen of these sites on the Internet, but they all work basically the same. You sign up for a free account and then you're allowed to upload as many digital pictures to your personal, virtual photo gallery as you want or as permitted. Afterwards, you can e-mail notices to your friends and family, inviting them to visit the gallery.
Nothing is really free and the free photo sharing sites make money in three different ways.
First, most of them sell banner advertising, so people looking at your pictures also see someone else's ad. Second, many of them sell hard-copy prints to your visitors. And finally, some offer premium, for-fee memberships that provide additional space to store your albums or other services. But they limit you to 15 MB of online storage space. Digital cameras really are changing the world of photography one picture at a time.