Ask Egg Bird: How to Upload Photos to Facebook

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This morning bright and early, Nancy from Connecticut wrote,

I’m still trying to figure out how to put pictures on…I’m technologically challenged!!

So I volunteered to come to the rescue, and here I am!! Let’s dive right in, shall we? I know one should never assume anything when teaching someone how to do something, but I am going to assume, Nancy, that you know how to transfer photos from your camera to your computer (she is an avid photographer and I’m pretty sure she knows how to do this). So, you have the photos on your computer in a file called “My Pictures” or something like that. I am also going to assume that you know how to find them when you want to attach them to an email and send them to a friend or relative. Given these premises, here is how to upload photos to Facebook:

1. Go to Facebook.com and log in with your username and password. You will find yourself on your “Home” tab. If you look at the top left-hand corner of the screen, where your profile picture is, you will see that under the photo there is a menu of options. Here’s what it looks like on my profile and I’m sure yours is very similar.
2. Click on the word “Photos” and it will take you to the next step, where you actually upload the photos. Here is what you will see:

Once you click on “Upload a Photo” you will be taken to the following screen:

Once here, click on “Browse” and it will take you to a screen where you will see the contents of your own computer and you will be able to click around until you find a folder with photos in it. Something like this:

All you have to do here is double-click on the photo you want to add, this screen will close, while the name of the file representing the photo in your computer will appear in the little window next to the “Browse” button. If you click on “Share” the window will close and on your Wall, the public interface of your Facebook profile that all your friends can see, the photo will appear. I uploaded photos for the first time in the past twenty minutes so I could make this article for you, Nancy, so here is what the first photo I uploaded to my Wall looks like:

Now, knowing you, sometimes you might take a funny or lovely picture and just want to share it right away, but at other times you might want to create an album to share, of photos that all “go together.” So go back to step 1 and click on the word “Photos” under your profile picture, and you will see this:

Here, of course, you will click on “Create an Album”, and you will be taken to the following screen:

Write a name for the Album, then the Location where the photos were taken, and then click on the little black arrow to the right of the Privacy tab and choose who can see this album. By default they set it at everyone, which does not meen the whole world, only your friends. If you want to limit this album to only a few of your closest friends, then the window with all your friends will open up and you will click on the ones to include. Click the Share button and you will be taken to the screen where you actually upload the photos themselves, which looks like this:

The tab that is blue is the one that you are in, so here you are in the “Add Photos” tab. Just do what you did for the single photo and you can upload up to 5 photos at the same time. Once you’ve done that click on Upload Photos, at the bottom of the window, and you will have the first five photos of the album. If you want to organize them, just click on the “Organize” tab and you can simply drag the photos around until you are satisfied with the order. If you want to change the info on the album, click on Edit Info and you can rename it and change other things. If you decide that after all those pictures are just too embarrassing, you can delete the whole album by clicking on the “Delete” tab. It will ask you to confirm, so you will have a chance to change your mind.

Once you have an album, all you will have to do is click on the album at any time and you will see above the first picture, which is the “cover” of the album, that there is the option to add more photos. The steps will be just like the ones you have just been through, so I’m sure it won’t be a problem for you to do that.

Please write a comment to this post so I know how you did. If you want to print this article out, just highlight the whole thing and paste it into a Word document and then print it, this way you will be able to have it next to you. I wrote another post in which I recommend that everyone who is technologically challenged have two monitors, this way they can have the post with the instructions on one side and the one where they’re following the instructions on the other. I have two monitors and I can’t imagine going back to one.

Have fun uploading your pictures to Facebook, Nancy, and please let me know if this was useful to you!!!

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