How to display flickr photos on Facebook automatically (and how to manually update)

Your pictures and photos on flickr don’t show up on your Facebook even though you linked them? Here’s how to fix it.

Displaying and showing your flickr pictures on your Facebook account is easy. That’s great. So I uploaded a photo to flickr to test it and reloaded my Facebook homepage. No photo.

Here’s why: Facebook checks the data on your flickr photostream at a (random?) time about once per day. If there are new pictures, it posts them on your Facebook homepage where your friends can see them. That’s nice and for sure the easiest way of doing it. But sometimes you’d like to have the photo on Facebook right now, for testing the connection or to show it to friends without delay. It can be done, and here is how:

1. Go to your Facebook profile page
2. “Options” (Right beneath the “Share”-button of the input box at the top)
3. “Settings” (same place)
4. Go to “Stories posted by you” -> Imported Sites -> “Flickr”
5. “Update now”

Done! Facebook now checks your flickr photostream and displays all pictures you uploaded since it last updated.