Facebook Unveils Shared Photo Albums

A picture's worth a thousand words, and now Facebook is letting others add to your conversation

The world's largest social network announced shared photo albums on Monday, a new feature that allows multiple users to upload images to the same album. The album creator can share access to as many as 50 "contributors," who can each in turn share up to 200 photos. Previously, users could only upload photos to albums they created, and each album was limited to 1,000 total photos

The new shared albums have three available privacy settings: public, friends of contributors and contributors only. This gives the album creator control over who has access to the group's images, said Bob Baldwin, the software engineer at Facebook who spearheaded the project with colleague Fred Zhao Read more...