Tagging is not Facebook Tagging?

In the guides, they say you have to list full name and email. I haven't tried this yet, though

I've tried that. Some work and some don't. I would say most don't. The email address of the person tagged in iPhoto needs to be the same as their Facebook account email address. That's what I'm assuming.

And what if some people aren't your Facebook friends? They don't get tag or any notification for that matter.

Has anyone have any luck with tagging and making the tags appear on Facebook? Any sure-fire methods?

Morever, some people on Facebook don't display their email addresses making it difficult to tag them. Why implement a feature which is badly thought out?

This seems to be really badly thought out. I don't see why it needs an email address if I have a Facebook friend with the same name. It's not like it's preventing any mischief or anything.

Yes, but Facebook has more than 150,000,000 users. How many "John Smith"s are on Facebook? 10? 100? 1,000? 10,000? How could iPhoto/Facebook be sure you picked the right one? iPhoto want's to make it easy for you so you don't have to think about it. However, garbage in and garbage out. If you don't put in the correct information, how do you expect an application like iPhoto to tag the right person? I happen to know two "David Owens" and they are two completely different people and have different e-mails but they're both in Facebook.

-Doug

Yes - there will be a small percentage of people who have friends with identical names but that's no reason to make things difficult the other 99% of the time.

What about those of us who do not use Apple's Address Book application? I use Entourage to keep all my contacts. Should I be denied the ability to use iPhoto with Facebook? I think Apple made it as simple as possible for as many people as possible.

-Doug

Agree with the previous postings. Even with the name and email address entered, only some (not all) of the face tagging gets copied to facebook. For example, my friend Rachel got tagged on 5 out of 8 photos, but for the remaining 3 photos, she still got tagged as Rachel, but it didn't associate those as being her.

The real problem here is that there is no consistent protocol for keywording, tagging or metadata. Every site uses a slightly different system, what works on one will not work on another. Allied to this is the fact that apart from Exif and IPTC protocols are changing as well. Windows file comments are not the same as Mac Spotlight comments and so on. One source I read on the recently referred to the Balkanisation of Metadata. Until everyone sits down and agrees a protocol and then implements it this issue is going to continue.

Regards

TD

There is an option to sync your entourage with Apple address book, so its not a problem.

Does anyone here have any friends on facebook that have exactly the same name ? My guess is that it is very rare.

I dont have access to all the email addreses that some friends have used to sign up to facebook and so cannot use the taging properly.

IMO the way this should work is that you tag people in ilife with the exact same name as they use in facebook. If you then have a friend with that name, the two are linked together. In the rare case you have two friends with the same name, it should just ask which one you would like to assign the picture to.

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I've just noticed this and it isn't even documented by Apple. Faces tagged in an album after it is shared in Facebook will not appear as Facebook tags. Not even after syncing the album again.

It would be much easier it they provided another method of confirming Facebook identities like the personal id everyone gets in their URL for example. Or an automated method either with Address Book or Entourage email addresses. It seems to be a given to me that when I tag someone I know in iPhoto, it should automatically add their email address from any contact manager I have installed on my Mac, instead of me having to manually insert them individually.

What's even better is if they had WORKED with the Facebook people to allow us to have our list of friends show up in iPhoto and immediately tag them there.

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I've been struggling with the supposed Facebook-Faces syncing too. Even pictures of myself don't all show up properly (linked to profile, etc.) in Facebook. Some do, some don't. I definitely used my facebook log-in email for my own Face in iPhoto.

I had also manually looked up each person's Facebook profile for the email addresses to use in their Faces corkboard profiles. Still, some worked, some didn't.

Another weird bug(?): I uploaded a group of photos to Facebook, all untagged. Then I went onto Facebook to tag them. Only 2 of about 20 tags showed up back in iPhoto. Anyone else have this problem?