Facebook is following in the footsteps of Flickr and now allowing people to upload photos and video via email. Here’s how it works:

Go to the Facebook Mobile page, while you are logged in and click on the link “Send my upload email to me now”. Then facebook will email you confirmation plus the email address to use for email uploads. Make sure you save it to your addressbook.

After you attach your photos or videos to an email, you can include a subject line that will be used as the caption for the photos or videos you upload. If you’re uploading more than one photo or video in the email, the captions will be the same for all of them. You can always edit the captions later by logging into your Facebook account. You can send as many photos as you like in accordance with the size limits of your email provider.

Facebook already lets you post pictures and video clips by via their website, as well as a host of mobile applications like the Facebook app for the iPhone or Blackberry, among others. But with this new email uploads feature you can now just forward photos as attachments in an email. This is definitely a convenient feature.

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