look into out the gigantic bulk of photos now stored in Facebook compare to Flickr , the Library of Congress and Instagram . I knew they were swelled , but I never envisage the dispute could be so immense . 140 billion photos ! It defies belief .
It ’s 10,000 time larger than the photo catalog in the Library of Congress ! And Flickr , which I mistakenly reckon would be larger than anything else , is just a tiny fraction of Facebook .
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 yr mass 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 stupefying 140 billion photos , that ’s over 10,000 time expectant than the Library of Congress .
According to 1000memories , so far humanity has taken 3.5 trillion . Right now , “ every 2 moment today we snap as many photos as the whole of man charter in the 1800s . ”
Maybe someday someone would do something incredibly utilitarian with them , like monitor the state of mind of the whole satellite by analyzing the expressions and landscape of all these photos .
It ’s sorry to see the dying of analogue photos — and surprising that there were still four billion taken in the last year alone . [ 1000memories ]
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