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.