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Photobucket

Okay, so maybe I am not in the know, but I had no idea that this site supports mobile posting. I didnt even really know what the site was until I started to notice some of my more myspace-addicted friends posting pictures from photobucket as comments on my profile. So, in the interest of research, I figured I would check it out. I dont know if i just have bad luck, but when I tried to register and login it wouldn't accept the username and password I had registered with. I asked them to email my info it to the email I provided, just in case i screwed something up....i have yet to see an email from them. This is not good and after several minutes of trying to figure out if I was doing something wrong, I gave up. However, I was able to learn some stuff from their public pages. First, again like eyespot, their mobile posting feature is so buried in their site that I would have missed it if i wasn't so mobile conscious. At first glance, they seem like flickr for teenagers, publically stating the option to post video and photos to myspace (hence all the myspace photobucket comments) and offering a wide range of pseudo photo sharing services....searching, printing photos, creating calendars, strange moving image slide shows, etc. Again tagging and commenting were no where to be found. Even worse their definition of groups seems to be predetermined categories rather then user generated. I admit that without signing in I couldn't get the full picture but now I hardly think its worth it

I suppose I can see why some teenager with the intention of posting images or video to myspace or their blog would want to use this. But it seems overkill, if that is the only purpose, to include mobile posting. Plus, I had to wonder, why wouldn't they allow users to comment and tag. Do they not think it is relevant, do they not see that as part of their pupose, or are they the one's not in the know? Also missing from each photo/video was any kind of context....what is this, where is it from? Why do I care about some piece of media if it only provides me with a one way coversation? All in all it was a waste of my time....

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yea, photobucket sucks.

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