Photos application in Facebook is one of the most frequently used and the most popular features. Facebook users can upload individual photos or albums to Facebook using this application. Although almost all other image hosting services such as Flickr have imposed a limit for a size for photo uploading (quota for storage), Facebook allows unlimited photo uploads. However, users were allowed only 60 photos to be contained in one album, but later some users reported that they were able to create albums with 200 photos. Still it is not clear why some members are only allowed 60 photos.
Same as in many other Facebook features, strict privacy settings can be applied for Facebook Photos. Users can limit the visibility of the photos among the selected groups or selected friends. This allows users to have private albums shared only with limited individuals.
The most interesting feature of Facebook Photos is tagging. When a user uploads a photo, they can ‘tag’ the people, places, or objects in the photo. If the people who got tagged in the photo are present in Facebook, then those will be notified about being tagged in a photo with a link to access the photo. This becomes more interesting when the people who got tagged start commenting on the photo. The comments for a photo are arranged in descending order where you find the latest comments at the bottom of the page.
Facebook also allows users to upload photos from their mobile devices, so Facebook photos have a higher accessibility.
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