The largest catalog of photos to the world? It Face book

The number of pictures taken each day is growing: the advent of digital (with a resulting drop in analogue photography, as we said in this story) the amount of shots in the world has more than quadrupled, reaching an estimated figure for the 2011 to 375 billion photos. Some of these numbers is to be credited to the camera phone (there are more than 2.5 billion outstanding), which besides having contributed to increasing the number of shots, they have also radically changed the way in which the photographs are stored and consumed.

If you think a collection of images Flicker is one of the first names that comes to mind, but surprisingly, the numbers of what until recently was best known service photo sharing are a pittance compared to the catalog of images collected by Face book , a true giant when compared with other types of libraries. With the direct upload and social club that is established on social networking site, Face book's catalog has been enhanced with more than 6 billion prints per month.

Services with a long history (like Flicker) or very trendy (as Instagram ) are peanuts compared to the Face book, which in many cases even incorporates them, as the photos stored in the two services are often automatically shared on Face book. Once everyone had the classic shoebox full of photos, the revision of which was accompanied by the classic questions 'Who is this?' or 'Here, where were we?' No one would have thought that in a few years would be spent in an endless catalog Online, shared with thousands of people, geo-referenced and with facial recognition.

Posted by: Wasim Javed