I'm afraid this isn't very relevant, but it does have to do with forging connections online over bits of personal media; and it has a voyeuristic aspect to it, which reminds me of PostSecret (well, and YouTube and Flickr and all kinds of online user-generated content):
There's potential for serious privacy problems here. I'd think most people would object to having their private media published without their consent -- although, in this case, it does help reunite people with their lost photos, and the submitters do seem to respect the owners' privacy as much as they can.
But how about the note from someone saying she wished she'd lost her camera? Is she interested in taking part in this ad-hoc community? Maybe this has some compelling social networking aspect aside from the lost-and-found. Or maybe she's just lonely and wants someone to look at her pictures and contemplate her life.
Is anyone here familiar with geocaching? This also reminds me of the caches with disposable cameras or memory cards in them, asking visitors to take photos of themselves to be posted online later. Hooray for ad-hoc communities that form around a place, but not a time.
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When one would lose a film camera, you lost about 24 pictures. The camera itself is rarely the hardest part of losing a camera to be honest. It's always the pictures that can never be replaced. In this age of losing a digital camera, there is the possibility of losing hundreds of photos, which could be a disaster. This is why I always suggest saving a jpg image on your memory card with your contact information. When someone looks at the photos, they will then know where to at the very least... return the pictures, if not the entire camera.
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