6 Comments »Facebook previously enabled iPhone users among other users to email in their photos to have them uploaded but then the service was eventually disabled. As of today, anybody can email their photos to be uploaded to their Facebook profile via their personalized photo upload email. Everyone has their own email address which they can find via the Facebook mobile page. You can email as many photos as you’d like and all you need to do is enter a subject which will be used as the caption for the photos.
There are no upload restrictions on how many photos you upload, making this an extremely useful tool for uploading images. One strange component of the mobile email is that they are often hard to remember. My email resembles eltaik966time@m.facebook.com. So how will I remember that email address? I won’t, but thankfully I have the Facebook application on my iPhone to upload images and tag friends in them.
Many users have restrictions as to how they can send in messages and frequently email is the easiest way to do it, which makes this extremely useful. The easier it is for users to share, the more that Facebook is fulfilling its mission. I only wonder why Facebook opted not to let users use their username as their photo upload address (e.g. nickoneill@m.facebook.com). I can understand that it’s to limit who can upload the photos but couldn’t Facebook just accept uploads from verified addresses?
Either way, I’m sure that a lot of users will be happy about this new feature. If you’d like to learn more, go check out Facebook’s blog post about it.
Update
The commenters are giving me a hard time and effectively explain why Facebook uses this form of authentication. Check out the comments for more information.
Maybe next might be username@mail.facebook.com webmail!*
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/22/myspace-set-to-launch-webmail-service
Myspace tomorrow is set to launch a @myspace.com webmail service giving people who it seems want an inhouse email provider the option. Although more info e.g. spec is expected tomorrow)
Facebook if they follow the copy the competition (be it Twitter, Myspace, FriendFeed and whoever else they think at the time “I want that” they could use an username what they registered your non editable facebook wide ‘username’ and @mail.facebook.com to extinguish Facebook staff (from CEO/ Management down to the clerical staff e.g. Customer Service Advisers who whould have the @facebook.com reserved) from the average Facebook User and limit phishing
It could also be powered by say GMail (~7.5gb) or Windows Live Hotmail (has upto 500gb allocated [see liveside.net/main/archive/2009/07/20/how-large-is-your-hotmail-storage-size-actually.aspx]) for a feature complete service with also allowing both parties and Facebook users to possibly communicate on Windows Live Messenger or GTalk to Facebook users
Nick, SMTP (e-mail) is an unauthenticated protocol. It is not possible (generally) to verify the source of a message. There’s not much stopping someone from pretending to be nick@allfacebook.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing
Nick, are you aware that Flickr, YouTube, Brightkite, Ping, and a dozen other services are using secret-address systems? They don’t require verified addresses because users don’t want to have to verify every address they might use.
“My email resembles eltaik966time@m.facebook.com. So how will I remember that email address?”
Add it to your contact list as “Facebook upload”?
so now you’ve told everyone your mobile email address, anyone that reads this post can email any pictures they like to it (whether its nice, rude, illegal or advertising) and they will all go straight onto your profile and onto all your friends news feeds. hmmmm, i don’t think you thought that one through!
He said the email “resembles” that. Not that it is the real email they gave him.