20% of all photos taken this year, will end up on Facebook

Over the last decade picture has gradually become a universal means of communication. Easy shooting, editing and sharing photos of contributes to the fact that we increasingly prefer to show the world the image of something than to describe their emotions and reflections on this subject.

The most noticeable trend is Facebook where selfshoty bathroom peacefully side by side with photos from holidays and "a conceptual photo." Facebook Library contains 140 billion a photo-image, which is approximately 4% from all ever made pictures.

The experts considered that about 1/5 of all the pictures taken in this year, will get to albums Facebook users. In addition, according to some researchers, taking photos and putting some pictures in social networks can cause real psychological dependence.

via factroom.ru