Photos On Facebook: Over 10 Billion Served!
Facebook engineer Doug Beaver posted a note on his profile yesterday that FACEBOOK NOW HOSTS MORE THAN 10 BILLION PHOTOS. He wrote that users upload between 2 and 3 terabytes of photos every day, that Facebook hosts more than a petabyte of photos and that more than 15 billion photos are viewed every day!
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I often wonder how much data on the internet is wasted duplication. I have my favorite photos on my Facebook, MySpace, Picasa Web, Blogger, and Panoramio. Before Picasa web albums I was using PhotoBucket so I bet I still have an idle account there with some of the same images. While I use the embed feature at times, it is often more convenient to just upload them to another service when it is free anyway. Does anyone post an estimate of wasted unused online data?
Data sits on a drive in a company server somewhere. Not "on the internet".
Call it parking lot congestion, not traffic congestion.
If some company wants to clog their storage with crap, who cares? They would not donate unused space for scientific use, or to the local schools. They would rent it to a porno site.
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