“The goal of this feature is to sync photos taken on your phone, store them privately, and then choose which ones to share. I contacted Facebook about how they make sure these photos aren’t prematurely pushed live. Photo Sync means you no longer decide what gets uploaded to Facebook it all gets uploaded to Facebook. A couple accidental taps, and all of them get pushed to Facebook. You know how you took umpteen photos of your sister’s baby or the handful of the tree outside your house or the 15 of your shoes when you were really bored in class the other day? Well they all go to your storage center, not just the ones you want to share. The odds of this happening probably aren’t great, but they exist.įurthermore on this point, Photo Sync could end up annoying the hell out of your friends. I don’t expect Facebook to be perfect … which is why I won’t be enabling Photo Sync: Because there’s a chance my entire iPhone’s photo gallery could potentially be pushed to the site because of a glitch. There was the time that third party apps were accidentally leaking user data, and how gay students were exposed when Facebook’s privacy settings failed. Not just Facebook, of course, but many social sites have accidentally made private content public. Reason number one: Facebook has messed up privacy settings before.
I’m a pragmatist, and I’m not buying into Photo Sync for a few reasons. Facebook went ahead and put two and two together and created a feature that would leverage our growing interest in mobile photography with our growing interest in sharing our images on Facebook and created a simple, easy, automatic way for us to do it.īut as fate would have it, I’m not an optimist.
photos were being taken with smartphones. And you can’t really blame the social network for introducing the feature: Facebook is the largest photo-sharing website in the world (some 300 million photos are being uploaded to the site daily), and as of last year approximately 27 percent of all U.S. If you’re going to be pushing your smartphone photos to the social network anyway, Photo Sync inarguably streamlines the process. The optimists (and constant uploaders of photos to Facebook) among us hear all this and think Photo Sync sounds convenient. It’s simply like any other cloud hosting service: What’s stored in you Photo Sync folder is private until you make it otherwise, and you have a storage limit of 2 GB. Instead they’re being uploaded to a new, private storage center that Facebook is giving you, which is the second part. No – this doesn’t mean that every photo is being uploaded publicly to Facebook. This means that once it’s turned on, your 20 most recently taken smartphone photos are being pushed to Facebook (and from that point on, every single one you take). First, it connects with your smartphone to enable automatic syncing. Photo Sync is essentially a product that does two things. What is sort of shocking is how complacent everyone is about it. The tool has been in development for awhile, and we knew it was coming – its existence is not a surprise, nor is how it works. This past Friday, Facebook rolled out a new feature called Photo Sync.
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