Up to 50 Facebook users can now add to the new shared photo albums that Facebook is opening to roll out. Each individual user can add up to 200 photos, which means albums could contain as many as 10,000 photos. This is quite a step up from the previous limit of 1000 photos that could only be added to users’ own albums.
Bob Baldwin, the software engineer at Facebook who spearheaded the project, had this to say about one of the frustrations they are trying to solve with this new characteristic:
“Right now, if you were at a party and there were three different albums created, you might not be able to see all the photos .which is kind of confusing and frustrating.”
Speaking of parties, this feature is related to Google +’s party mode, where many users who are visitors of an associated event can share their photos and videos in real time.
The new shared albums feature will also be good for enhancing user appointment in Facebook Groups, and preserving memories of large life events attended by many people such as weddings, graduations, etc.
As far as privacy settings are concerned, Facebook users can choose to make these shared albums visible to the public, friends of contributors, or just the contributors themselves. The idea of shared photo albums supposedly came about as a result of one of Facebook’s company-wide hackathons.
Facebook has begun rolling out shared photo albums to a small number of users already. At first it will be a desktop-only attribute and will expand to all English users before being rolled out internationally.
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