What has happened to Picasa Web Albums ?

[JohnnyOldBoy]

I have used Picasa and Picasa Web Albums for years based on a recommendation on here from Fanum. I am an infrequent user.

My workfow is Adobe PS Elements for storing and editing photos. Picasa runs in the background indexing. When I want to share I upload to Picasa Web Albums.

This morning I logged in to Picasa Web Albums and it looks like a lot has changed since I last used it. It seems to want to share my contact info with everyone, link to Outlook etc

I'm think whoa ........... I am not too smart with this stuff and I don't want to be responsible for sending my friends and family email details out to every spammer. I don't want the people I send share my photos with getting a load of spam from 'selected partners'.

I then get an email from a complete stranger saying they are following my photos.

I have a couple of questions.

Given that I am only infrequently uploading to the web to share with friends and I am a pretty private person should I be using something else ?

How do you nail down Picasa Web Albums so it is private ?

I am not fussed about moving away from Google.

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Just change your default to private then nothing will be shared unless you go into it and specifically share the album. Not a huge amount of point putting it on Picasa mind you if you aren't sharing. As for the outlook thing, I have never been asked that nor have I been asked about my Gmail account unless I have specifically just wanted to share to people in my contacts.

 

[JohnnyOldBoy]

Thanks Marki, I will change the settings as you suggest. John