How to Load Photos onto Facebook From Your Email

Sharing photos on Facebook keeps friends abreast of your latest adventures.

Sharing pictures of big events and daily life is a common event for many of Facebook's more than 500 million active users. Facebook provides a number of mechanisms through with users of the social networking site can share these pictures. Some users upload photos directly from their computer's hard drive, some snap and send pictures on the go using their smart phones, but Facebook also affords users the option of uploading photos via email when that's most convenient.

Instructions

1. Visit Facebook's website and log into your account. Once logged in, navigate to facebook.com/mobile/.

   When you visit the Facebook Mobile page while logged in, the page displays your personalized email upload address. This is the address for uploading photos to your account. Make note of this address, or click on the "Send My Upload Email to Me Now" link.

2. Use your preferred email client to compose a note addressed to your personalized upload address. The email subject line will be the photo's caption, or you can leave the subject line blank.

3. Attach a photo to your email message, then click "Send" to mail the photo to your Facebook account's Mobile Uploads album.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also post videos using this same procedure. To change your status update via email, simply skip the step of attaching a photo and type your desired status update as the email's subject line instead.

• Facebook warns that photos and/or videos uploaded via email are viewable by all users by default. To change the privacy settings, visit your Facebook profile via the Web, select the "Photos" tab and then click on "Album Privacy."

References

• Facebook: Statistics
• Facebook: Facebook Mobile

Resources

• Sophos: Facebook Security Best Practices