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9.9 Sharing Photos and Videos on Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube
Directly from your phone, you can easily share your photos on Facebook and Twitter. You can also upload
videos to YouTube.
Logging into your social networks
You need to log in first to your accounts before you can upload and share your photos and videos.
On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap Data services.
Log in to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter one at a time. Tap the Off/On switch that appears to the right
of each of these social networks. On the subsequent screen, enter your username and password and
then tap Login.
Uploading photos to Facebook
After taking a photo with your phone’s Camera, you can upload the photo to Facebook. Use Albums when you
want to upload several photos at the same time.
Open the Camera and take a photo. For instructions, see “Taking Photos and Videos” in Chapter 12.
After taking a photo, tap the Send icon ( ), select Upload to Facebook, and then tap Send.
To share several photos, slide to the Photos & Videos tab on the Home screen, and then tap Albums.
In Albums, tap Menu > Share > Facebook, tap each of the photos you want to share, and then tap
Upload.
After upload is complete, you can check and view your Facebook photos in Albums. See “Viewing Facebook
photos” in Chapter 12 for details.
Uploading a photo to Twitter
You can upload only one photo at a time to Twitter and share the URL location of the photo in your sent tweet.
To find out how to upload your photo to Twitter, see “Sharing a photo in Twitter” in this chapter.
Uploading videos to YouTube
You can use Camera to capture a video and immediately share it on YouTube. Use Albums when you want to
upload several videos at the same time.
Open the Camera and capture a video. For instructions, see “Taking Photos and Videos” in Chapter 12.
After capturing a video, tap the Send icon ( ), select Upload to YouTube, and then tap Send.
On the Video Upload screen, enter a descriptive title and tags for the video. Also tap the Off/On switch to
set whether to make this video public to everyone.
Tap Upload.
To share several videos, slide to the Photos & Videos tab on the Home screen, and then tap Albums. In
Albums, tap Menu > Share > YouTube, tap each of the videos you want to share, and then tap Next.
Follow steps 3 and 4 above to upload the videos to YouTube.
After upload is complete, use the Web browser to log into your YouTube account if you want to check and view
the uploaded videos. You will find them grouped under “My Videos”.
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