facebook albums suck


Why I hate facebook picture view:

a) There is a black banner on my photos. All of them. If you leave your cursor stationary and not on the photo for a few seconds it goes away. No one will ever do that, they will just see my photo cropped.



b) Camera settings: There has never been a way to show the details of how the picture was taken. Its true that Picasa and Flickr are meant for photographers, but it would be nice if facebook gave us some consideration.



c) There is no way to manage the order of photos in an album. You cannot choose to organize using the filename, only by the default (which I assume is the time the photo was taken). You can swap the photos around manually, but imagine trying to flip the order of 40 pictures when you can only drag and drop them (and they are way to big to let you see the whole album without scrolling).

d) I can only publish images on my page that are public. I can't edit these pictures in private and then publish them. Also, when I finish the upload there are only two options: PUBLISH or CANCEL (the latter will actually delete the album I just uploaded). I generally don't like to publish at the same time I upload, so I will refresh my browser to get around facebook will to make all my decisions for me.

e) I can't set the date for my images to times earlier than when I openned my photography page (2012) because the images must go on my timeline and the timeline only exists from last year. On my regular page I can only set picture date to my birth year. At least I can change that to whatever I want.



f) When I publish an album facebook decides which images it likes and displays those on my timeline. Then when they are clicked, the viewers don't go to the start of the album and see the pictures in order but they start at the last images because those are the shots facebook wanted to show. Not that I can actually control the order of the images.

g) If I upload larger images, and then open them in full-screen mode, the edges will be cropped from my screen...

h) After I will find some way to deal with any of these issues, they will inevitably change things around, usually for the worse. Then all my efforts at making the images and albums look right go down the drain.

Why then, do I keep using this awful service? Simple: my only alternative is Google+...







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