I’m persuaded that people can take their photos the way they prefer and to follow their own inspiration.
They might consider photography a way to collect memories of
people, places of moments; they can use it as means of expression to convey something more conceptual, they might prefer to take photos as a form of illustration of a text or they might make tests and experiments about all the technical possibilities of their cameras. There must be many other purposes, besides the few I mentioned above. They are all equally respectable, unless they violate the privacy of others in an offending and abusing way.
Besides the aesthetical aspects and the visual pleasure that looking at a beautiful photo might give to a passionate of photography, there is also another very interesting element in analysing others’ photos.
It’s a way to decoded others’ personality in a much more sincere way than listening to any description they can give about themselves.
I don’t mean that all the people can be voluntarily in bad faith when they speak of themselves, some are, but the majority of them are not. But often we see ourselves in a way that is only partial, as if we looked at ourselves from a limited and restrictive point of view, which doesn’t allow us to see all details.
We can apply a kind of unconscious censorship on certain things or we can stress what we would like to consider our main features, neglecting the others.
But our gestures, our instinctive reactions and our choices speak of our seal self in a much articulated way.
I have posted my photos on PBase for over ten years and I have learnt so many things, not necessarily only about photography.
Of course I don’t share unrequested remarks on PBase, which is and remains only a photography site and where everyone has the right to post the way they like.
But here, in this half-hidden personal space I might feel allowed to express my
views.
I have noticed like PBase has started being used by some groups like a kind of Facebook with pictures. 
There are links of belonging  to the same groups which are displayed by  a kind of rituals of daily mutual comments and  a relative lack of attention to the photo one comments , giving priority to what the photo display as connection to the private life of the photographer.
For example if one posts the photo of a dog in a garden, the comments are often based on the relationship between the photographer and his/her dog or theyare  an attempt to say something witty and familiar or they might also be a bit soppy ( “how cute, how sweet”   they are good both for pets and children usually), it’s rare that someone comment the quality of the photo, the composition , the possible  technical flaws…photography is not the centre of interest, it’s a pretext to  exchange superficial personal  messages.
Of course there is nothing wrong in that, nothing at all. But it opens the door to a slightly deeper analysis.
There are always few people ( luckily very few, but unfortunately very active), who are not interested in this  apparent way to socialize,  but have as purpose only to show off, to feel popular, to feel admired or I don’t know what.
They follow very easily identifiable mechanism, but others, rightly probably, have neither the time, nor the depth to identify them, so as a paradox the rather pathetic strategies works.
There is a person, just as example (a person who is obviously quite egocentric self-confident) who spends hours every day (I think) commenting systematically all the recently updated galleries, praising every photo as a masterpiece, without paying obviously any attention to what he sees.
I have taken the time to play a little the role of the entomologist and to follow his behaviour.  He has a few standard comments which he probably copies and pastes at random to all the new photos he sees, but sometimes he makes a little confusion (it’s understandable, since he works so hard on his maniacal search of retuned attention, that he cannot check all, time is what it is…. I have read the same comment to the same photo, exactly the same words at a few months of distance.
Once there are also humorous and a little grotesque involuntarily mistakes, for example I have found one of his sycophantic comments praising the great artistic qualities of a gallery of photos…of item on sale on EBay ( obviously the gallery owner used it only for his commercial purposes).
This person is really an emblematic character.
We have all our limits, our flaws and our kinds paranoia.
I wonder what others can detects from my photos…and this scaring thought makes me more cautious.