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It started as a professional photo screensaver/wallpaper site, but expanded into photo sharing in 1999. Photos taken from users' Digital cameras can be organized into dozens of different categories to narrow down specific searches and content. In early 2006 , there were more than 268,500,000 photos on the site. All members get a free homepage where they can share photos publicly with friends, family and anyone who comes across it. There's an automatic notification feature that tells you when your favorite members have added new photos. Members also have the option to share their photos privately. Webshots is a large photo sharing community, and many of its active uploaders are either Teenager s or young adults, typically of college age. Sexually suggestive photos have gradually increased in number and visibility on the site, appearing repeatedly in the "Most Popular" section. This has earned the site the nickname, "WebHots". Webshots has also made inadvertent celebrities out of certain individuals, particularly Amanda Wenk who became a minor Internet phenomenon in 2005 due to the popularity of her sexually suggestive photo galleries. Visits to her pages would often be in excess of 30,000 per day. The site is also criticized by a number of people who believe that young adults take advantage of the widespread popularity of Webshots to publish potentially reputation-damaging photos of their college or high school acquantances on a worldwide scale. While the constant flow of new tantalizing information on Webshots makes a long-term backlash against a particular group or individual unlikely, the immortalization of a person photographed in an undesired situation which circulates freely on the world wide web is often very upsetting to many people. Webshots is owned by CNET Networks. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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