Do you share photos on Facebook? If so, you’re not alone. In fact, those pictures of your recent vacation are sitting among some 60 billion other photos currently being stored by Facebook.
60 billion. With a b. That’s compared to Photobucket’s 8 billion, Picasa’s 7 billion and Flickr’s 5 billion.
Photo organizing Facebook app Pixable has used data from a sample of 100,000 of its users to give some insight into the contents of Facebook’s huge photo collection.
As you can see below and in the data from Pixable, weekends are the most popular time to upload photos. Older people don’t tag the photos as much as younger folks. Women upload twice as many photos as men…which Mashable says “might be good for everybody, as recent research suggests photos with women in them are generally preferred. Now for the somewhat hilarious explanation of this by the CEO of Pixable:
“Guys prefer photos with girls. Girls prefer photos with girls. Pretty much everyone prefers photos with girls,” explained Pixable CEO Inaki Berenguer at a recent Social Media Week panel.
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