facebook 401 -- creating photo albums and uploading photos

now that you have made some friends on facebook, you probably want to share some of your photos with them. personally, this is one of the things that I use facebook for the most. there are two things that you will need to do, create a photo album and upload pictures to that album.

creating new photo album:
you can create as many photo albums as you want to, but you can only put 60 pictures in each album. I typically create an album for each month and add the pictures that I want to share during the month (I find the 60 picture limit keeps me from boring my friends with too many pictures). I will create a separate album for special events (i.e. kids birthday parties, Christmas, etc.)

1. from your main facebook page, click on the photos tab or click on the photos icon on the bottom left hand side toolbar.
2. click on "create a new photo album" on the top right hand side of the page (right under your name).
3. give the album a unique name and add a location and description if you want to.
4. set your privacy for this photo album, by default it is set to let everyone see your photos. (I usually set mine to only let friends of friends see my albums)
5. click on create album.
6. if you want to start adding photos to this album now, start with step 4 on the instructions below.
   

adding pictures to a photo album:

1. from your main facebook page, click on the photos tab or click on the photos icon on the bottom left hand side toolbar.
2. your albums will be listed on the bottom of the page. click on the album that you want to add the pictures to.
3. click on "add photos" or "add more photos".
4. you can browse to the folder where the pictures that you want to add are located using the folder list in the left hand side of the screen.
5. you will then see the pictures that are in that folder in the right hand side of the screen. click the check-box next to the pictures that you want to upload.
6. once you have chosen all the pictures that you want to upload from that folder, click on "upload" (you can only upload pictures from one folder at a time).
7. the pictures will then be uploaded to facebook.