The scenario must be quite common, a couple or family have individual Facebook account with their own circles of friends as well as many common friends. They want to share photos from a shared occasion but they must upload the photos multiple times into their own albums or just rely on one person owning the photo album and sharing with Friends of Friends or using the “Share with Friends not on Facebook” link (which breaks privacy control).
Another alternative is to use Groups and Events options in Facebook which support photo albums but then require people to be invited to the event or join the group (and you lose the same mode of privacy control that you have through the personal albums).
It would be nice to allow one person to upload photos and then delegate the album to certain friends (e.g. husband/wife) as a shared album (could be read-only or read-write) so that the albums shows in the delegate’s photo albums and can be shared according to the delegates privacy controls (although perhaps limited to a subset (e.g. if the original album owner selected “Friends of Friends” then they could prevent the delegate from sharing with “Everybody”).
There is a Facebook group to rally support for this feature and a couple of related feature requests. ( request 1 | request 2)
If you read this post and are interested in this feature please join the group, vote for the enhancements and spread the word.
