We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words, which is exactly why sending photos from your iPhone is WAAAAAY more fun than just texting. It’s why socially sharing your photos has become so popular; sending photos from your iPhone or sharing them online is practically a way of life now. It’s because sending someone an image of the ice cream cone you’re about to devour is so much more effective than saying “I’m about to eat some pistachio ice cream, aren’t you jealous?” 

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Photo by Anne Schillings Photography</p>
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We have become a visually expectant world – we want to see as much as we can, all the time. Sharing images has become the universal way of inviting people to share your life story and for those that find it difficult to say what they need to say with words – a photo can say it all with no words. Forget whether what you’ve got to say fits into 140 characters, or spans the length of two text messages – what’s really important here is that you can get your point across with an image. More and more people are choosing to share photos for the sheer convenience and expressiveness of it.  

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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>iPhone Photo 352/365</em>
Photo by Alexkess</p>
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Mobile sharing has grown exponentially in an incredibly short time. It was not long ago that cell phones could only take calls let alone take photos, edit them on the fly, and send them all around the world in a matter of minutes. In just a few short years photos taken with the iPhone have become the most shared type of photo on Flickr, and despite recent changes to Twitpic’s Terms & Conditions, which has left many users fleeing for other services, they’re still averaging a massive 9 million hits per day. 2010 was an epic year for photo sharing apps like Flickr, Foursquare, Instagram, Path, and many more reaching record downloads. Proving that sending photos from your iPhone has become more important than many other types of photo sharing. We are collectively living the photo sharing lifestyle. 

What exactly is the appeal? 

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<li>Instant sharing allows for instant feedback. </li>
<li>Sharing photos can be more expressive than just words. </li>
<li>The people you share your photos with feel as if they are sharing the experience, not just hearing about it second hand.</li>
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I don’t know about you, but I almost always click on a tweet that has a photo, for me there’s something far more interesting about seeing what the person sharing has just seen. It makes the whole experience feel much more real. 

Here’s a few practical tips to consider when sharing your photos socially: 

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<li>Take a lot of photos and post them often. People love looking at photos.</li>
<li>Photos that convey a message or show something meaningful will receive a better response from your friends and family. </li>
<li>Create content that other people will want to share. Sharing photos with your friends isn’t just about sharing with one person – it’s about what they might share with their friends too.</li>
<li>Photos you share don’t have to be professional-quality, they only need to express your point or share an emotion. </li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>iPhone Photos 196</em>
Photo by Connie</p>
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Go forth and share your photos people! The world gets smaller every day because of it – and as far as us photo nuts are concerned, that can only be a good thing. 
