How to publish to Facebook photos and videos of your children

This article is written by our reader Vladislav FLACSO, founder and head of the company OWOX.

Those of you who have children (or are planned in the near future), probably faced with the task of collecting and disseminating photo / video content for a newborn - grandparents and parents on business trips have rightly demanded to keep them up to date happening.

In this article I will share my experience in dealing with this problem and will elaborate on the specifics of privacy settings in facebook.

Criteria for selection of service

mandatory requirements

• Grandparents want to receive regular information about the everyday life of the newborn. Mainly in the form of photos, videos, and sometimes small notes.
• Content providers are the mom and dad.
• Access to content must be strictly limited: only a specified number of persons (family).

optional requirements

• All content should be automatically collected and is available for viewing in chronological order from mobile and stationary devices.
• Subscribers must be notified when new content is added.
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• All participants in the process (except the newborn) should be able to express their opinions and share their impressions of what he saw.

assumptions

• All participants in the process (except the newborn) have regular access to the Internet.
• Among the participants of the high level of penetration of smartphones.

Based on the requirements it becomes clear that Claudia will help us, we only have to select the appropriate service. Among the considered myself were Path, Google+, Picassa, Flickr and Facebook.

As evident from the title of the article, I chose Facebook and eventually satisfied. However, many setting options was not too obvious, so focus on them in detail.

In advance I say that all account activity is most convenient to perform on behalf of the individual user in Google Chrome. If you do not want to spend time customizing it, you can open an anonymous box (Command + Shift + N), but in this case will need to sign in with each entry.

account registration

1. First, you need to register a separate email. With that, I think, all right. I recommend you to configure redirect it to your personal inbox.

2. Facebook does not allow to register a user under the age of 13 years. So I have 20 years more. Theoretically, it is possible make a request the installation of any date, but what happens next - do not know exactly, and I decided not to experiment. To year does not bother anyone, on the item editor Profiles can be set display only the day and month of birth.

3. If desired, it is also possible specify the name of the pageThen the page will be available at facebook.com.ua/username

Privacy settings

The right privacy settings above everything else Dad risks shlopotat from my mother. Be careful with each of the points:

open the Privacy Settings and:

1. We limit the visibility of key information for friends only.

2. Set settings Profile and Tagging.

noteEven if you set the visibility of the content only for friends, but then tagged in a photo of a friend (or confirm their mark), this photo will be available and marked for friends. For example, if a newborn account noted on the pictures Dad, this photo will be available to view the pope friends. And it will be clear only after the next open window.

With a strong desire can first mention someone in a photo, and then go to your privacy settings and photo install custom-mode. Check "to show photos to friends" whom you said should be removed:

To see who is available for viewing photos, you can in the top right corner of the page with the photo in full size:

3. Adding friends.

Those who will be added as a friend, will be able to view the content on the page we created. You can specify the related connection, if desired. Do not forget to limit the display of this information only to friends:

Adding content

Now you can add pictures, text, and videos to your new page. This can be done in four ways:

1. with a desktop computer;
2. using facebook mobile app on your phone or tablet;
3. with the help of third-party mobile applications with automatic exports to facebook
4. By sending a special email.

In my experience, most often added to photos. They do with the phone, so it's best to use the application or email.

Since the penetration of iPhones among the relatives of the hero of this article 62.5% (and by the pope line - 100%), the examples below are for the iPhone. Probably on other platforms have something similar.

Path, Found only sensible application to export on facebook, do not come, because the content is imported through it on facebook for a long time, and the video is sometimes not at all. In addition, the tape messages written through the Path, are often hidden in a tape in subscribers.

Official facebook app for iPhone / iPad does not currently allow you to add multiple photos at a time. You can use the free PhotoUp +, Which solves this problem, but it remains the main disadvantage - the inability to send multiple photos in the background. We have to wait until all photos are loaded, which is particularly uncomfortable with the mobile Internet.

As a result, it is more convenient and faster all appeared to add photos by sending them to a special email (this happens in the background). On the internet instructions on the mass that is necessary to go to the page http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ under your account, and you'll see a special personalized email. In fact, on this page have already been published links on mobile facebook app, and you want us to email have on the page http://m.facebook.com/upload.php. Open it should be under your child's account:

Email can not be called a mnemonic, so add it to the phone's address book, and will end up with the ability to add content on facebook in a couple of clicks.

The theme of the letter would be used as a comment to the photo. from the message body text it will be ignored. You can send and photos, and video, but video was not a lot to be (the exact size is not installed).

note: Everything that is sent to this address (any address) will be published. Therefore pass this email only to people you trust to add new content on behalf of their child.

Notification about adding content

Remains to be done so that the relatives involved quickly learned about the new publications on the wall polzovalya facebook. To do this, they need to add relative to closed friends. Notifications about new content and comments will be both in the facebook, and on the phones of relatives (if these handsets support push-notification and activated)

instead of a conclusion

As a result, your baby will Timeline since childhood (although it can be included at once). The solution of the age at which to transfer the account under the control of a full-fledged owner, I have not come :)
Those who worry that the collected data will be lost, may from time to time to save them to your computer (link "Download a copy of your Facebook data" bottom of the page) or even customize online reservations at drobpox using ifttt.com.

Now it is small: the baby and all those who worry about it, to be healthy, then you sincerely wish!