Facebook has fast become one of the leading photo and video sharing sites on the web. The social network already lets you upload photos via MMS or through Facebook apps on the iPhone, Blackberry and other mobile devices. Today, Facebook is giving users another way to share photos immediately— via email.
Facebook now lets you create a unique upload email address where you can send photos and videos from anywhere you have email access on your mobile device. When you attach a photo or video to an email, you can include the comment to the photo in the subject line of the email. But if there is more than one image or video attached to the email, the caption will apply to all the attachments.
Facebook says that your email provider determines the file size of how many videos and photos you can send in one email, but the social network doesn’t have any restrictions on how many images can be uploaded via one email. Images uploaded via the email will be placed in the “Mobile Upload” photo album (where photos from MMS and apps go) and will follow the privacy settings of that album, according to Facebook.
This sounds a lot like Flickr’s option to upload via email. Similar to Facebook, Flickr gives you a unique email address that you can use to add your photos to your Flickr photostream. This move shows how important photo and video sharing is to the social network, which saw 1 billion video views last month.
What’s new about this? I used to email photos in all the time before they came out with the iPhone app.
I send photos to Facebook all the time from my non-smart phone. What’s the new part?
Been doing this for several weeks. What’s new about it?
Leena Rao, have you used Facebook before? I’ve been using this feature for years now. Any one who used the Facebook Mobile Application and played around with it would have figured this out. They are only highlighting this now, and publishing a blog post about it, because of their big mobile push. As Digg would say. Meh. Buried for Old Story.
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Ability to send photos/videos in emails from non-phone client is the new part it seems.
Ditto what everybody else said. Facebook has supported e-mail from mobile phones for years using photos@facebook.com, but that required the user to register a mobile number with Facebook (because everybody used the same address). Personalized addresses should allow photos to be sent from unregistered devices and e-mail accounts.
Personalized addresses aren’t new today, though. They were (I think) added when Facebook revamped the Mobile app earlier this month. (I noticed it about 2 weeks ago.)
Can you post an article on how broken their mobile alerts are? I am really getting annoyed they are not fixing this. Sign up for their FB mobile alerts and you’ll see what I mean.
Whats so new?
Is the world THAT uninteresting that you have a whole post about this?
Or are you also on the FB payroll (in addition to Apple)?
Was this post pulled out of the archives in response to Xoopit/Yahoo?
I also noticed the other post about some jobs. Man recession is bad all around I guess.
I guess we’ll get an article about the “new feature” (most likely you’ll say it’s ripping Twitter off) to receive SMS messages when a friend posts a status update and the ability to reply back?
You really should focus on more market research outside of the Twitter world, and you won’t make TechCrunch look behind the times with articles like these.
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