Flickr and Facebook Authentication

Here’s something I found out the hard way.

I wanted to brush the dust off my old Flickr account and I noticed that it has the option of Facebook authentication. Given how rarely I use Yahoo services I thought it’d be a neat way to avoid remembering another username and password combination (not that it’d be a burden with LastPass).

Anyway, if you want to use Facebook authentication do not sign in with your Facebook account unless you have already linked it to your Flickr account. If you do, then you’ll end up creating a second account.

What you should do is:

1. Login to your Flickr account,
2. Go into your account information by clicking your username up in the top right-hand corner of the screen,
3. Click on the “Sharing & Extending” tab,
4. Click the link to link your Facebook account.

Once done, you can login either with your Flickr username and password or provide Facebook authentication.

Just one final thing, if you did create a new account by accident you can disassociate your Facebook account from it but you need to wait 24 hours after account creation in order to do so.