Facebook introduces 'Shared Photo Albums': All you need to know

Love to upload a photo album on Facebook every time you go out for a party? Well now Facebook will let you share those albums with your friends meaning, that they too can add photos to your ‘shared’ album.

According to a report on Mashable, Facebook announced the feature on Monday and it allows multiple users to upload images to the same album.

The report says, that The album creator can share access to as many as 50 “contributors,” who can each in turn share up to 200 photos.

The maximum number of images in a shared album is 10,000.

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Album creators also have the powers to decide if a contributor can invite someone else to the album and they also decide on privacy and visibility settings.

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However a contributor can tag, edit or give captions to the photos they upload. The new feature has been rolled out only for users who have US English as their language settings.

The three privacy settings for the shared albums are: public, friends of contributors and contributors only.

Bob Baldwin, the software engineer at Facebook headed the project along with colleague Fred Zhao wrote on his Facebook page, “Over the past few months, Fred Zhao and I have built a new feature for photo albums on Facebook called Shared Albums. When you create a photo album, you can now add friends as contributors to the album. The shared album will appear on their Timeline photos, and they’ll be able to add their photos and other contributors.”

“This feature is an often requested photos feature, and I’m so happy to see it launch,” he added.

For Facebook the idea seems to be ensure that everyone can pool together their photos from special events such as weddings, parties, graduations, trips etc and let everyone’s friends see the photos. The hope is that shared albums will help people navigate through the various kinds of privacy settings that often there.

However since the shared album also comes with ‘contributors-only’ settings, it means not everyone will be able to see all the pictures in such an album, unless you have a benevolent album creator who goes for public settings.

Tell us in the comments if you look forward to using such a feature.