Ememories, a website offering picforums, allows users to post photographs at no charge.
Instead of dishing out hundreds of marks to send your family and friends snapshots of your glamorous life here in Germany, see if you can borrow a friend’s scanner for the day instead. With Ememories, www.ememories.com, posting your pics is easier than ever. While many such sites exist (some offering more advanced services), Ememories lets you create “picforums” for free. Their tutorial guide steers even the most basic computer user through establishing their own account. After a few simple questions (no credit card info!) you’re ready to add pictures, captions, frames and headlines to your forum. Get the full effect by previewing your forum before inviting people to view it. With everything ready to go, use the form letter provided by the site to e-mail your friends at home, letting them know where to check out the site. If you don’t want just any surfing fool to see those pics of your German boyfriend in his Speedo, limit access by creating a password. Just make sure to include it in the email, otherwise your friends back at home miss out on the smiles (or laughs), too.