This is a sponsored blog post. I was given compensation to share my honest opinion about dripthat.

Beyond being mildly obsessed with all forms social media (my students make fun of how much my phone is constantly lighting up with push notifications), I’m also a big fan of new start-up apps. Maybe I’ll use them for awhile and they will fizzle away or maybe they will become the next big thing. Either way, I love creating an account and going to town on all the fun intricacies of a new app.

My latest download and plaything? dripthat.

This photo-sharing app is focused on putting the control entirely into the hands of the user. You control the faucet. You create the ‘drips.’ What the heck is a drip?

• Drips can be a single picture or a series of pictures around some theme or event.
• Drips can be private or public. You get to decide who sees the drip - send a single picture or album to one person or a collection of people OR make the drip public for the world to see.
• Drips can do exactly that, drip out over a period of time. Release the drips in an album all at once or slowly over a period of hours or days.
• Drips can be starred (liked) with the ease of a double click.
• Drips can be commented on too.

So what makes this photo-sharing app different from the others out there? To me, it comes down to the actual practical applications.

For example… My school year is ending so I created a drip that contains 64 pictures highlighting my first year as a teacher. The album is public and something all my students, blog readers, family and friends can take a look at. (This also helps avoid the awkward student Facebook friend requests to see an album of this kind AND it negates the need to scroll back through an entire Instagram collection to get an idea of what the last year held in store for me as a new teacher.)

Not sold? How about this example… Later this summer I’m heading to a family wedding in Atlanta. While the pictures of the epic three-day extravaganza are something my family will want to see, those aren’t pictures the whole world needs or wants to see. I can create a group of my family members and then share all the photos from the weekend with them specifically. That way I’m not clogging up the my newsfeed on Facebook or individually posting on Instagram each picture I want to share. Plus, there is the added bonus of the individual pictures in dripthat can be saved by the person viewing it. So if I take an amazing picture of the groom smashing cake into the brides face, everyone can save it to their individual photo album and use it years later to embarrass our cousin.

And for the bloggers in the group… Drips can be scheduled too. So you don’t have to be attached to your phone or computer in order to post at a certain time or on a certain day. Just like a blog post, you can set it up to go live when you want. Additionally, you can set the pictures to drip out throughout the whole day to build up a little excitement or create a little anticipation.

Check out my profile to see what dripthat is all about!

This information is on behalf of dripthat.