This is big news. In April of 2009 Facebook had 200 million users and in February of 2010 doubled that number to 400 million.
Last week Google had 7.03 percent of all web visits and Facebook had 7.07 percent. This post will automatically linked to my Facebook Fan page. http://www.facebook.com/eddie.mulkeen.photography?ref=name
There is a lot of money at stake here Facbook grossed $1.5 Billion last year and Google made $23 Billion.
There is another element that concerns photographers…more people publish their photos on Facebook than make prints of them.
And with 400 million users uploading 3 billion photos a month, Facebook has become the largest photo-sharing site on the Web by far.
A whopping 65 percent of people sharing pictures online are doing so using Facebook. Over the past year, Facebook’s photo-sharing feature has more than doubled its audience, while competitors like Flickr and Photobucket are struggling to keep up. This is a dramatic takeover of first place; up until mid-2007, Photobucket was more popular than Facebook photo-sharing. Photobucket’s market penetration has since shrunk to 20 percent, and uploads to the site dropped 7 percent this year.
People want to put their pictures in a place where family and friends can see them, so Facebook is a natural choice. But while the site is great for sharing photos, it’s becoming a default place for storing them, too.
I think by the end of 2010 that Facebook will be even bigger….I’d like to see Facebook offer a more formal gallery option for special images like those from Weddings.
