Photo Sharing

Anecdotally I think that most libraries are preferring Flickr for their photo sharing needs.  This data is interesting though:

Facebook Photo Library Dwarfs Everything Else on the Planet

“Digital cameras are now ubiquitous – it is estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world today have a digital camera. If the average person snaps 150 photos this year that would be a staggering 375 billion photos. That might sound implausible but this year people will upload over 70 billion photos to Facebook, suggesting around 20% of all photos this year will end up there. Already Facebook’s photo collection has a staggering 140 billion photos, that’s over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress.”

“It’s sad to see the demise of analog photos—and surprising that there were still four billion taken in the last year alone. [1000memories]”

We still have showboxes full of photos at our place and it’s fun to go through them.

Stephen