Web Clicks: Social Networks and the Image

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Thursday, July 28, 2011 Facebook is estimated to have nearly 100 billion photos sitting on its servers. It’s obviously become one of the premier destinations for our digital lives.

Pixable—makers of the Photofeed app, among other photo software programs—has just released a survey of consumers’ photo habits on Facebook. The information is based on profile photos from 500,000+ Pixable users. Some of the tidbits Pixable discovered:

• Women upload about one new profile photo every two weeks while men clock in at one every three weeks.

• The number of profile photos per Facebook user per year has tripled since 2006.

• The average profile photo on Facebook has three “likes” and two comments.

Tagging was arguably the feature that made Facebook the biggest photo site in the world and seeded the idea for creating the platform. Now the company has finally won a patent for it.

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