I have a 6 month old grandson. He is a total joy. My daughter Margaux, being a mom for the digital age, is constantly uploading new photos of Logan. Seems she isn’t alone. Facebook users upload 300 million new photos every day to the social media website. That’s 7 petabytes of new photos being stored every month. What’s a petabyte? Most of us know megabytes (million) and gigabyte (billion). Those will more powerful computer storage needs have been dealing with terabytes for a few years now (trillions). A petabyte is measurement in the quadrillions, or 1,000 terabytes.
When we think photo sites, we think of websites like Flickr. Well, users uploaded 6 billion photos last year to Flickr. Facebook users uploaded almost 110 billion photos. Big holidays like Halloween bring in close to 2 billion photos in one day.
Facebook now has 220 billion of our photos backed up on their servers. So anytime you think there are too many pics of my grandson being uploaded, or your friend’s cat, or your neighbor’s daughter she uploads with every new outfit, keep in mind, we are creating a digital scrapbook to end all scrapbooks, one photo at a time.
