★ ERIC Atkins ★

When you share your Instagram image on Facebook, your image is not uploaded to your Facebook image galleries.  Instead, Instagram posts a link in your newsfeed to the Instagram website where your image is hosted.

Instagram users have been wanting their Instagram image sent to a Facebook photo album (not just a link to the Instagram website).  To send your Instagram image to Facebook do this:

1. Create an account at Posterous.com.
2. Connect an “Autopost” to your Facebook account on the Posterous Settings page for your Posterous account.
3. Configure the Facebook posting options in your Facebook “Autopost” settings on Posterous.
4. Email facebook@posterous.com from inside Instagram app.

Results:  Your Instagram image will be uploaded to a Facebook album.  [Note: It will also be posted at your Posterous account.  However, if you are like me, you will use your Posterous account as a “throw-away” blog, unless you want to setup a new photo blog.]

Bonus:  The Posterous connection to Facebook is robust.  You can choose to disallow posting to your newsfeed while still uploading to a Facebook album.  Additionally, if you upload more than a set number of photos, you can have Facebook automatically create a photo album for your images.  So, if you upload X amount of photos in a certain amount of time, the Posterous connection is smart enough to create a whole new album for your images.

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