Well, that may be a bit extreme, but its immensity is amazing.

 

According to its website, Facebook has over 800 million active users of which more than 50 per cent log on everyday. And within those 800 million users more than 250 million photos get uploaded- per day.

 

That would be a lot of scrapbooking.

 

It’s the photo phenomenon that intrigues me. There are over 140 billion photos on Facebook! That’s larger than actual photographic sites like Flickr and Instagram.

 

The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, contains just more than 14.7 million prints and photographic images.

A social media site, only seven years old, contains more photos than a 200-year-old building created with the sole purpose to store files.

I suppose that is the beauty of the world today. Fast uploading and easy sharing. It’s appealing- and a little scary. Maybe we’re all taking photos for granted?

According to the blog of photo–sharing site 1000memories, every two minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s.

What happened to the days of printing pictures, and physically going through placing them in an album? What will happen to all the old shoeboxes filled to the rim with reject photos not good enough for viewing?

 

Perhaps that era will soon be at its end. Forget the days where Wal-Mart printed your photos for you- just send them straight to Facebook.