今天收到snapfish的一封email，内容如下：

It’s been a while since you used Snapfish. According to the terms of the service, you need to place an order at least once a year to keep your account active.

With more than 15 million customers now using Snapfish to store hundreds of thousands of photos, we ask that you order anything (except items from the hp shopping links) to reactivate your account for another 12 months. Please act by SEP 4, 2006, or your online photos will be deleted.

哦，这才发现人家的免费帐户是有条件的，每年必须至少下一次订单（冲印照片），否则照片就会被删除。去到站内，又发现一条：

Warning: Your account is about to expire! Your photos will be deleted on 09/04/06 unless you reactivate your account by completing an order, which can be as small as a single 12¢ print.

email里ask、please的语气，这里已经换成warning了（也是，到人家地盘了嘛）。看来，帐户跟照片肯定要被删除了，因为我根本没有冲印的念头（就算想也不会在国外呀）。

其实，人家拿服务条款出来，有理有据，我也说不出什么（要怪就怪自己当初没仔仔细细看清楚）。但要么交钱、要么走人的感觉，还是让我不太舒服。

知道snapfish还是在04年底，当时听说hp收购了一家相册网站，就注册个帐号体验一下（挺喜欢它有点卡通的风格）。不久之后flickr横空出世被yahoo收购，于是又注册了flickr。相形之下，flickr各方面都优势明显，便渐渐淡忘了snapfish。不过这次，它倒是让我印象深刻了。