Facebook Videos
Facebook supported videos for as long as I can remember. It’s a great feature that allows you to upload anything. You can also record yourself on the fly and send video messages. The limit as of this writing is under 300 MB and under 20 minutes.
I’ve started sending and replying to messages using videos. Sometimes, I also “write” on people’s walls with a video. So far, there are only a few reasons for this behavior:
- I fully support online videos (obviously since I run Longzero).
- I don’t feel like typing.
- I feel like using Facebook’s storage space and bandwidth a little more.
I like online videos. It’s entertaining and as more and more appear on the web, it confirms the theory that anybody can do anything. It’s only a matter of will power.
It takes only a few clicks to send a video message as opposed to a bunch of keystrokes when typing text. Some messages that I send could be typed more quickly than recording a video. And that’s where the second reason comes in.
I’ve learnt a little about How Facebook Stores Billions of Photos. 30 billion files. 540 terabytes. 475 000 photos served per second. 100 million photos uploaded every week. 10 000 servers. Those are big ass numbers with big ass units.
With that information in mind, it would be interesting to see how far and how quickly we can go if everybody communicated on Facebook using videos. The videos I send to people take about 300 to 500 times more space than a simple text would. I figure Facebook can afford it.
