One note about Facebook and services like them: make *sure* you read the terms of use before you upload your pictures, as the copyright and licensing agreements might not be to your liking. Facebook's terms, for instance, include the following clause:

"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook"

If you're not comfortable giving Facebook full license to your photographs, don't add them there.

Also, sites like Facebook will reduce the quality and resolution of your photographs when you upload them. The picture they display is NOT the one you uploaded!

A dedicated site like Flickr is, by far, the better way to go. Their interface is dedicated to showing photographs, for one thing, they don't alter your photographs -- and they don't have (what I consider to be) onerous terms of use. Personally, I use Flickr to display and Amazon cloud storage to back up. It has been working well for me for years.

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