Facebook and Flickr team up for photo sharing, and it totally makes sense

It's not very good. What it does is put a wall post for EVERY photo you upload. I was midway through uploading 260 photos from a day at the beach, when all the complaints from my Facebook friends started rolling in. The built-in flickr integration in the profile settings does a better job, as it'll post a single update in that instance, instead of 260.

Flickr had subscriptions WAY before Yahoo took over. Flickr has been, still is and will remain the best service for photography amateurs.

And ... I agree. You can't compare the quality of the 3 billion photos in Flickr to the stuff in Facebook.

Damn. Wish I'd read the comments first. Let's see what happens. Anyway, I received two email confirmations like this:

Subject: You've successfully linked your Facebook account to Yahoo!


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WTF?

I'm with Tom, it's not very good as is. They really need to have it group photos in batches of uploads, like Facebook does when you upload multiple photos at a time. Also, the main thing I like about Facebook and photos is the ability to tag photos. Right now, when you upload a photo to Flickr, and it gets sent to Facebook, and a user clicks on it in their stream, it sends them out to your Flickr page. This may be a good thing for some people, but I would personally like it to stay within Facebook, and let me tag people.

And… (there's a lot of work to be done I think :P) it displays the Flickr tags in Facebook, which are pretty much useless to Facebook users since A) things in Facebook aren't tagged in that sense, and B) they're not clickable, so it's not like you can interact with them in any way.

It'd be awesome if it all worked nicely, but I will probably end up disabling it and uploading to both Flickr and Facebook, which shouldn't be needed, but still is at this point I think.

I linked it into one of my clients accounts and then saw through logging into Facebook with said client's account that people we knew were having all their photos viewable from one location (Photos in Facebook). All this friends of friends stuff allowed for seeing plenty more photos than I'd have thought was reasonable.

I quickly logged out and logged in as others and removed a few accounts that I knew wouldn't be sharing their info with everyone by creating limited profile lists for them - Facebook really needs to allow for mass editing of albums BTW.

In short excellent use of API, but needs many more restrictions upon what is shared and with whom. I am trusted by a few companies and people to keep an eye on things like this for them - but for average Joe there will be a huge backlash about who can see what and from whom. Comparable to the Google Wave friends of friends things only with actual already associated users.

I expect more of this feature as it becomes more integrated with people's posts.