Sharing isn't easy. It's difficult to move photos from one social network to another or storage. Now, Facebook[1] and Google[2] have made it simple to copy your Facebook photos to Google Photos[3]. This is the first fruit of an open-source project, the Data Transfer Project[4], to make it much easier to trade photos and other data among the Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter platforms.
The objective is to make it easier for you, the user, to control your data. Once completed, if you get sick and tired of Facebook, you can grab all your photos, messages, and files and transfer them to say Microsoft OneDrive.
When I say "your" data, I mean just that. When you transfer photos or videos, you can only copy over those that you've put on Facebook. With this new tool, you can't transfer down images of yourself that others have posted.
While this functionality is new to US and Candian users, it's been working for some Irish users since late 2019[5]
For now, you can only transfer photos from Facebook to Google Photos. By default, any Google account comes with 15GB of storage. If you need more, you can get 100GB for $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year, 200GB for $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year, or 2TB for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. If you're a professional photographer or you can't stop taking selfies, you can rent up to 30TB of storage.
Google Photos can store images with up to 16-megapixel resolution. It also comes with a built-in photo organizer and editor tools.
To move your Facebook images to Google Photos, you start by logging into Facebook. Once there, go to your Facebook settings