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In what seems like a no-duh move, Facebook is making photos more of a social experience. Rather than individuals uploading vacation photos for their friends to ogle—though there will still be plenty of that—users can now add photos to shared albums.
The good news: A group of friends can add photos of their communal camping trip to one album that all of their mutual connections can collectively ignore. Okay, okay, so photo album-sharing is actually really beneficial. Up to 50 friends can share 200 photos in one album, which is perfect for events—proms, weddings, trips—or sharing pictures with family members.
Facebook began rolling out shared photo albums on Monday.
Photo album-sharing is designed for individual profiles, a Facebook spokesperson told TechHive. There are no plans to offer the feature on Pages.
Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin told Mashable that privacy settings will apply to shared albums: The album creator can choose to make it public or limit it to contributors or friends of contributors. Only the creator can change that setting.
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