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.
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Maybe next might be username@mail.facebook.com webmail!*
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/22/myspace-...
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
Comment by Jamie Ellis — July 22, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
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
Comment by Alex Rice — July 22, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
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.
Comment by Facebook User — July 22, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
"My email resembles eltaik966time@m.facebook.com. So how will I remember that email address?"
Add it to your contact list as "Facebook upload"?
Comment by Diablo — July 22, 2009 @ 6:44 pm
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!
Comment by Paul — July 23, 2009 @ 12:33 am
He said the email "resembles" that. Not that it is the real email they gave him.
Comment by Bolix — July 23, 2009 @ 9:24 am
hi i am karna,i want to down load pics
Comment by karna — December 23, 2009 @ 4:51 am
can i get a prsonalized address to upload photos to facebook via email
Comment by emily — December 28, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Yo!
Comment by Brent holland — December 30, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
How do I upload a new Profile Pic through email? Email me back, please, if you have an answer!
Comment by Paul — March 14, 2010 @ 2:33 pm
how do i upload my picture to my facebook account
Comment by Ojogwu Francis Egbul — April 13, 2010 @ 11:36 pm
hi how are you friends my name is arshad i am frome swat mingora n w f p pakistan i need good friend plz call me this number 0092 300 5742189
Comment by ARSHAD KHAN — May 7, 2010 @ 9:45 am
Hi guys,
I'm assuming that facebook created this "hard to remember" email address for photo uploads because you don't want people uploading junk to your profile without your permission. Imagine a predator uploading something they you don't want other people to see.
Comment by lee — July 23, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
Is anyone aware of any 3rd party providers who offer such services ? We can use them to create email aliases on the fly and then when users upload, using their api we could retrieve the pics and attribute to the userId ?
Comment by Mandy — August 3, 2010 @ 6:18 am
how do I up load a pic to someone who sent me a
message
Comment by Mary Copeland — September 1, 2010 @ 2:30 pm
How i upload pictur in my current email address
Comment by Malkit — June 22, 2011 @ 6:21 am
facebook have changed the facebook.com/mobile page! Where can I now get my upload email address from?
Comment by trev — December 15, 2011 @ 4:54 am
i like the concept, im trying it now.. thanks !
Comment by nofeeofw — January 22, 2012 @ 10:10 pm