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My Flickr, Postmortem Facebook User Tabs
Do your profile pages look a tad different? There are no more custom User Profile Tabs, like “Cute Little Puppies” tab or more importantly the “My Flickr” tab.
On Friday, Facebook removed all custom Tabs from every User Profile Page, citing infrequent use in all apps (via: FB Developer Blog - Platform Updates). This is sad news for us, Flickr users, who love to share our photos with friends within the comforts of our profile. It is important to note that the “Business/Fan” Pages will retain custom tabs functionality! In June of this year, Facebook removed Profile Boxes from our profiles. How will we share our Causes now? Flood our friends’ news feeds with links? I hope not.
I started My Flickr in May 2007 (this blog in 2008) with the intent of sharing my Flickr photos and photosets with friends and family on Facebook. I firmly believe that we, photographers, do not want to upload our photos twice, especially to a place like Facebook where we lose rights to our own photos.
Where do we go from here?
Moving on without the ability to add My Flickr to our Info Tab (yeah, they silently cut that functionality), Profile Tab, or Wall Tab, let’s go over some possible alternatives.
- User action: Add one’s Flickr photos link (http://flic.kr/kalebdf) to one’s Profile information (well, duh. I did that).
- Add a “My Flickr” Facebook photo album with a single image pointing to either a My Flickr landing page (similar to how the Profile Tab functioned) OR directly to your Flickr photos page.
- Add a “My Flickr” Facebook photo album that has small images associated with and linked to each Flickr photoset.
- Automatically create a News Feed story whenever one posts a new photo to Flickr and link to either a My Flickr landing page or directly to one’s Flickr photos page.
I publish 90% of my photos as “publicly viewable” on Flickr.com. Ultimately, I want to notify my friends that I’ve uploaded some new photos and for them to go see them on Flickr!
Is this your case too or do you have them private / protected & only want friends & family (thus, Facebook friends) able to view, comment (within Facebook & not viewable on Flickr), share, & print the larger photos?
Do you have any suggestions? I’d love to hear them here!
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P.S. Dear Facebook,
User content like our Flickr photos is still relevant 5 days after we post them to our news feed thus the reason why we had Profile Boxes & Tabs displaying our creative work.
-My Flickr users
