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15 years 3 months ago #7662 by ciaphuas
Is their a way to import pictures from facebook into the users Albums?
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15 years 3 months ago #7670 by alzander
Nope, not right now. This is something we've had a long-term plan for for a while, but nothing tangible yet. It's very hard to do for a few reasons.. some users have thousands of photos on Facebook, so we can't import them all automatically (or at one time for that matter). Additionally, there's privacy problems to overcome for grabbing even a set of them. So, the only solution we can think of is to let users manually see all of the photos on Facebook, mark them, and then click a button to import them. Sounds easy in one sentence, but is pretty complex behind the scenes.. for many of the same reasons as stated before.

Hope that helps explain why it's not there.. and answers your question that it's not possible. We'd love to have something along these lines later in the year, and this type of functionality (tight, tight integration between profiles on both systems) is what we're working toward, but just not there yet.
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