Shareapic vs Shared Images

I've been only moderately happy with Shareapic, and have been looking for another image host that would pay for views. While cleaning out some emails today I discovered that I already was a member of Shared Images (sharedimages.org). I believe that I signed up for them as the result of a writing assignment many months ago to review the site.

Well! I liked what I saw about the payment options, although it is difficult to predict exactly how well one would do there since there is a scale that measures "quality of traffic." And I'm not even going to tell you more about this site because I really don't want to go back there, or send you there. In fact I've asked them to delete my account.

I had set up an album there as a result of the assignment, but had never uploaded a picture. So I did that. It was mildly annoying since the maximum size is 1MB, which meant that if I were going to use them every photo from my camera would need to be resized and saved before uploading- a real space waster unless I took the time to delete each one after uploading.

But the final straw was when I viewed the image to see what kinds of ads they would serve to gain their income. It was pornography, plain and simple.

I know that the ads at Shareapic are sometimes a bit racy. I know that they accept ads from some places that I believe to be scams. But at least the girls in their ads have a few threads of fabric over certain places. No such luck at Shared Images. And the poses are not artistic if you get my drift. I'm no prude; I'm fine with fine art. This was not art.

So for now I will put up with the inability to organize my galleries (albums) at Shareapic, and the sometimes annoying ads. But I'll keep looking for another option to earn a few pennies with my pictures.

Shareapic Temporarily Suspends Payments

web ad income July 15 (4 blogs, 2 web sites, writing): Adsense $.15 Adgitize $.56 Project Wonderful $.02 Shareapic $.02 Clixsense $.04 Chitika $.09 ______________________ Total: $.88