I pushed Facebook’s photo storage over the petabyte edge

Just after posting a photo of my daughter on my Facebook profile today, I received an email from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) saying that Facebook now has over one petabyte of photo storage.  I did it.  I know I did.

What’s a petabyte?  A petabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.  And, according to WOMMA, reaching that milestone means Facebook has officially eclipsed all other photo sharing sites.  They said a petabyte equates to about 10 billion pictures.  Wow.  A month or so ago, I suggested to my mother that she sign up for Facebook so she could see all the pictures of our daughter my husband and I had been posting.  In fact, I can’t remember the last time I logged on Kodak Gallery.  Apparently, I am not alone. 

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