How to Share Facebook Photo Albums with Non-Facebook Users
Sharing photo albums with fellow users on Facebook is easy. But like most Facebook users, you probably have family and friends who do not have Facebook accounts, or at least do not check them often. You can still share your albums with these friends. And thankfully you do not have to upload the pictures to a file-hosting site like Photobucket, Flckr or SkyDrive to do so. You can share your albums right from within Facebook.
How to Share Facebook Photo Albums
To share a Facebook photo album:
- Log in to Facebook.
- Go to Profile from the menu on the top of the main page.
- Click Photos on the left column.
- Click the album you want to share, e.g. “Family Photos.”
- Look for the “Public link” on the page.
- Click the link or select and copy the Web address.
You are now ready to share your Facebook photo album with your non-Facebook contacts. You can send the public Web address via email, post it in instant messaging chat or whatever way you prefer.
Photo Album Tips
You can share your Facebook profile pictures this way too. All the photos you have ever used as a profile picture are stored in the Profile Pictures Album which you can access from the Photos section.
A word of warning however: the public link really is that – public. That means if anyone else gets hold of the link you just shared, they will be able to see the complete album on Facebook without restrictions. If you are uncomfortable with this idea, it might be better for you to send the pictures to your contacts directly via email or chat. If you use Windows 7, you can simply select the pictures from Explorer and click the Email button to send via your default mail client. Or you can upload the pictures to an online file-sharing site and add password-protection to it if possible.
Another point to remember is that sharing your photo albums does not change its privacy setting. If you decide to share, say, an album entitled “My Cousin’s Hawaii Wedding Photos” with friends who are restricted from seeing it in the first place, they won’t see anything.
As always, be careful with what you share on and off Facebook. Once you transmit files to, or share links with, other people’s computers, you cannot control who else can see them. If you change your mind later and decide you want to stop sharing your photos, you can delete specific photos or entire albums you have uploaded on Facebook.
