Cameras have become faster, cheaper, and
easier to use. With those changes has come an astronomical increase in the
number of photographs taken. According to Photoworld’s estimates Snapchat users share 8,796 photos every
second. In 2012, in a document filed to the SEC, Facebook wrote that “on
average more than 250 million photos per day were uploaded to Facebook in the
three months [that] ended December 31, 2011.” In 2013, according to Internet
org’s newspaper people uploaded 350
million images to Facebook each day.
And those are just numbers from a handful of
social-media companies. Weibo, What’sApp, Tumblr, Twitter, Flickr, and
Instagram all add to the pile. In 2014, according to Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report, people uploaded an
average of 1.8 billion digital images every single day. That’s 657
billion photos per year. Another way to think about it: Every two minutes,
humans take more photos than ever
existed in total 150 years ago.
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