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If you haven’t yet signed up with a paid Flickr account, you might check out 500px (http://500px.com/popular) and PBase (http://pbase.com/).  There are also free social sites that you might find are fun.  Usually they have a collection of forums and they run photo contests.  Frequently you can save a large or unlimited number of photos for free.

When I started out with digital a computer monitor was 1024 X 768, so even though my camera could take larger images, I opted to have it shoot that size.  Of course, now I regret that.  Several years ago I switched to raw files for everything I don’t need immediately.  If I need an immediate JPEG, I usually ask the camera to save both.  And, I save everything, even the bad shots.  You can never tell when you will need a specific shot and as time passes, computers, software and your skill all improve, so a shot that was marginal some years ago may be able to be salvaged.

Remember to make backups, regularly.