Facebook rolls out 10,000- picture shared albums

Facebook is rolling out a feature which
allows multiple users to contribute to the
same album.
Currently, only the creator of an album can
add a maximum of 1,000 photos, but under
the changes, up to 50 contributors can add
200 photos each to the same collection – a
limit of 10,000 pictures.
"Hundreds of millions of photos are
uploaded onto Facebook each day and
today, we're making it even easier for
friends to share photos with the rollout of
shared photo albums," the company said in
a statement.
"Whether you're at a wedding, birthday
party, or fresh off of a trip, all your friends
will be able to add photos, tag photos and
edit just one album."
The new feature began rolling out on
Monday in the US and will arrive in the rest
of the world in the coming months,
Facebook said.
The new shared albums will have privacy
settings of public, friends of contributors
and contributors only.
Bob Baldwin, a software engineer at
Facebook who oversaw the changes, told
technology website mashable.com the new
settings would give the album's creator
greater control over who could see the
images.
"Right now, if you were at a party and there
were three different albums created, you
might not be able to see all the photos
[based on privacy settings], which is kind of
confusing and frustrating," he said.
He added: "I think one thing that's really fun
about creating products at Facebook is that
you're never quite sure how people will use
the product in the end.
"We're really excited for its launch because
we think people will use it [shared albums]
in ways that we're not even thinking of."
-telegraph.co.uk