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   Facebook Adds Dropbox as Groups File Choice

   Glenn Fleishman

   Facebook Groups may be used for all sorts of purposes: neighborhood
   exchanges, kids' sports teams, Wiccan circles, and much more. As you
   know from any sort of digital group to which you belong, it's often
   useful to share files among members, such as documents and schedules.
   Facebook [1]has tapped Dropbox to provide an additional option.

   Facebook Groups already had the option to click Add File and choose a
   document from local or networked storage. In a change being rolled out
   to users ' and, thus, you may not see it yet when you log into Facebook
   'a new option to add files from Dropbox will also appear. Any linked
   files are available for viewing and download, and if the Dropbox file
   owner makes changes, group members receive a notification.

   This works very much like Dropbox's existing public-file sharing
   feature: the URL is obscured (a token is inserted) to prevent guessing
   at a URL, but the file's URL is exposed in Facebook and can be copied
   and distributed. When the rollout is complete (over the coming days,
   Dropbox says), all Facebook Groups members will see a Dropbox link, and
   have the option to link in a Dropbox account.

   Dropbox has free accounts that include a paltry 2 GB of storage
   (compared with 5 GB for Google Drive and 7 GB for Microsoft SkyDrive).
   Adding photos and referring users who sign up (even for free accounts)
   can increase no-cost storage as high as 18 GB. Dropbox has paid plans
   starting at $10 per month for 100 GB of storage.

References

   1. https://www.dropbox.com/help/383/en

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