Um, just what is this site suppose to be? I most recently saw that it is trying to position itself as a photo site to replace Instagram after the recent announcement backfired and they had to backpedal and return to their original policy. So far, all I have experienced with Picassa is that it made an album out of my profile photos (including a separate one for profile photos-draft?), a scrapbook photos and one for this blog(!). These were formed automatically and I only discovered this site by looking at my Dashboard for Google. I guess it is for downloading your photos as sharable albums exclusive of being in posts on a web site now that they have added a mobile app. I was surprised that it made those albums without my opting in as I did not know about Picassa before the Dashboard gave me my surprise.
This auto-opt-in ticked off a friend of mine who was posting photos and text separately on Google+ and found that his photo posts had been removed to albums only. He was very upset and deleted all material from his page: posts, photos, profile info, etc. I had to tell him about Picassa because his photos and album were still there. So he also deleted the info from his Picassa file and made both files private and blocked from anyone but himself. But since he has no plans to use them any more, they are basically dead pages. That was when he discovered that his Blogger page had an album created for it as well (I told him about how my empty album auto-formed; I guess it is to store photos that get posted on my blog; like that will happen). That also set him off, as his blog is something he deliberately chose to not connect to his G+ account (because it is NSFW). He said that the only reason he didn't close his whole Google account was because he uses it to sign in to a number of his other non-Google sites. He really hates this auto-opt-in stuff that Google is doing.
As for myself, I don't have a good camera phone, so I am not downloading photos. That kind of makes this a site for which I really have no use right now. Not in some bad way, but without good tools, it's just going to store duplicates of my very occasional photo posts on G+.
(Sorry to get a little off topic, but I promised to air his complaint).
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