Media Tech

  When it comes to sharing photos and videos online, it’s hard to beat Instagram. This is because unlike some other photo sharing platforms, Instagram feels less serious and more fun with all the various filters and effects, and also features such as IGTV and Instagram Stories. At the same time, we get it. Instagram is owned by Facebook and if you’re not a fan of them collecting information on you, especially seeing creepily accurate advertisements, then maybe it’s time to find a different host for your photos, and here are some of the best alternatives that we have found. 500px If you’re a professional photographer or a serious hobbyist looking to share their photos with other like minded individuals, then 500px is the obvious place to go. The platform has been around for a while and is usually associated with being more catered towards professionals and those who are taking their photographs more “seriously”. Granted, you might not have access to all the fun and other social aspe...

I was in college when Facebook launched in 2006, and one of my cousins had sent me an invitation to join it. Soon after that, the social media platform became my de-facto app for storing my photos and videos. Even when my laptop crashed, I was pretty cool with the whole scenario because Facebook had all my choicest memories safely stored. Yeah, I used Facebook like cloud storage, and in the process, I managed to spam my friends’ timeline pretty well. Fast forward a couple of years, and Facebook became almost synonymous with scandals and data privacy issues. Be it the Cambridge Analytica data scandal or the more recent password breaches, and all these have left a scar on Facebook’s image. Plus, the fact that Facebook knows more about me than my husband does, and clearly, it was not a comforting fact. And hence it was only natural that I (like  millions of others ) was looking for a way out. Though the process is rather easy, the thoughts of all those phot...