Facebook 101: Lesson 3 - Importing Your Flickr Account
My younger brother Grant posted the following question to my wall last night:
Well, Grant, your answer is the subject of Facebook 101: Lesson 3 - Importing Your Flickr Account.
Disclaimer: Today's lesson focuses on Flickr, with whom you may or may not have an account. You will also find this information helpful if you have any of the following accounts:
- Digg
- Picasa
- Delicious
- Yelp
- Google Reader
- YouTube
- StumbleUpon
- Last.fm
- Pandora
- Photobucket
- hulu
- Blog/RSS
If you do not have an account with any of these services you'll still want to follow this lesson as I'll quickly cover where you can adjust some of the privacy settings for your profile wall.
Step 1:
When logged-in to Facebook, navigate to your profile. By either clicking the Profile button or your name.
Step 2:
Just below the share button in your status update area is a Settings button. Yep, click that.
You will have a list of options pull up for you. Let's quickly roll through some of your options here.
The Available Sites are sites that Facebook can be set up to monitor for activity. For example if you have YouTube set up, Facebook will post an update to your profile every time you upload a new video.
Imported Sites are sites that you already have set up to receive updates from.
There is an option for Profile Story Comments. Checking this box means that if someone comments on one of your updates it will be visible on your wall. If you would like to turn this off, un-check the box.
The last area is Stories Posted by Friends. Here you can decide if friends can post messages on your wall and also who can see those messages. I leave my settings as networks and friends being able able to see posts made by friends, just because I wouldn't want someone to post something to my wall (even if they were a friend) that some potential employer or client may be turned off by (safety first). The final check box allows you to determine if posts from friends will automatically be shown on your wall, or if a visitor to your profile would have to turn them on in order to view.
Ok, back to the lesson.
Step 3:
Click on Flickr, enter your User Name and then click Import. That's it! Click on the wall tab to view your latest Flickr update.
As always, I want to drop a bit of experience knowledge on you about the topic covered in this lesson. I've found that the import tool of Facebook tends to be a bit on the slow side. Don't expect that it will immediately update after every upload or action you take on any of these services. Usually the update happens within one day, but I have had multiple times when updates will never show up.
So my advice would be that if there is something really important/cool that you want to share with your friends use your status update, link, video, or photo share option and run the risk of something showing up twice.
There are also applications available for Fickr that can display your latest photos on your profile, but to my knowledge they will not post updates for you when you upload new photos, so I prefer the import method.
Again, if you have more questions we'd be happy to provide answers. Check back soon for our next Facebook 101 lesson.
In case you missed them, here are links to our other lessons:
Facebook 101: Lesson 2 - Integrating Twitter
Facebook 101: Lesson 1 - The News Feed
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