Facebook gets 500 terabytes of data a day!

[Luke]

I would have to say, even writing that title made me feel crazy. Facebook get 500 terabytes of data each day put onto their servers from you and I using Facebook.

What is your opinion on that? Do you agree that's crazy? Imagine having to pay for that :lol:

 

[froggyboy604]

Wow, that is a lot of Data. I wonder if this includes Instagram which is owned by Facebook, but Instagrams files are hosted on Amazon.

It almost sounds like Facebook users are using their FB account to backup all their photos, videos, and text on FB to access from any internet connected PC.

 

[Luke]

Not really, every notification, friend request, status and comment uses up space remember; notifications are something which happen all the time.

 

[Ace]

This is not surprising as Facebook is the biggest social network site.

 

[sapper]

Thanks heavens for that, at least we know where 90% of the S*** on the internet goes to

 

[froggyboy604]

The popularity of Smartphone, mobile and Tablet with internet probably have a lot to do with the huge amount of content, pictures, video, etc which people are posting to Facebook which let people post on Facebook anytime of the day as long as they have a wireless internet connection, and battery life on their mobiles.

I also got a feeling a large percentage of the post on Facebook are now posted by SEO workers, Social Media Marketers, and webmasters looking for free advertising and traffic for their Facebook page, or actual website.

 

[DJboutit]

That is a lot even though they do not allow uploading

 

[froggyboy604]

Facebook let you upload video, photos, and music files for music fanpages for musicians like Taylor Swift, etc since when I went on Facebook I could upload video, and photos to my profile, and I remember visiting some music fan page with a music player app in the sidebar.

I think Facebook app and game developers like Zynga/Farmville might be able to upload their apps to Facebook unless they embed them on their own servers.

 

[Jay]

Thats crazy! But the amount of revenue they generate is nothing compared to the costs of storing data. 😛

 

[Dean]

Have you seen their building in NYC? It is GINORMOUS!

 

[Tecca]

Thats crazy! But the amount of revenue they generate is nothing compared to the costs of storing data. 😛

Should be the other way around. The amount of data they store is nothing compared to how much they make.

 

[froggyboy604]

Facebook also sells some of user data to advertisers, and other companies like market research companies which might be interested in user data to make and advertise their products on Facebook : http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fa ... r_data.php

 

[Jay]

Thats crazy! But the amount of revenue they generate is nothing compared to the costs of storing data. 😛

Should be the other way around. The amount of data they store is nothing compared to how much they make.

I was talking about the costs to store the data compared to their yearly revenue. :great:

 

[kasem]

That's insane haha

 

[etc]

it would be fine if the data are useful though but if those are chat records, those i think would be useless

 

[froggyboy604]

I think chat records are useful to the members since some members might want to look back at what they chatted about a few days a go, and having Chat records on a website could mean they use Facebook over other sites like Twitter, Google Plus, etc.

Chat records could be useful to advertisers, delivering targeted/personalized ads and companies who like to predict future trends, but Facebook probably never share chat records to companies since it would be a privacy concern to members to have companies reading chat logs.

 

[Geoffrey]

I'm pretty sure they don't have any trouble paying for it. Think of all the money they've got to be getting from their advertising. I'm sure all those games companies put on there have to pay a pretty penny too.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think the Facebook game companies like Zynga usually just share a percentage like 30% of their earnings from people using Facebook Credits, or Paypal to buy digital items and money like Farmville dollars in game, and ads hosted on FB games.

Although, games probably have to pay a small amount of money for approval of the games on Facebook.

 

[Geoffrey]

I think the Facebook game companies like Zynga usually just share a percentage like 30% of their earnings from people using Facebook Credits, or Paypal to buy digital items and money like Farmville dollars in game, and ads hosted on FB games.

Although, games probably have to pay a small amount of money for approval of the games on Facebook.

Then even if they just share profits with facebook, considering the massive amounts of people that (for some unknown reason) waste hours of every day playing that crap, they're sitting on a gold mine.