Where do you store your photos?

The homepage for Facebook, the largest social media network on the web. (iStock)

It sounds like the days of storing your old photos in shoeboxes and albums are long over, according to popular photo-sharing site 1000memories.

In a blog entry entitled "How many photos have ever been taken?" 1000memories provides some fascinating data about how many photos have been snapped throughout history, and where the majority of those photos are being stored.

One of the most interesting observations in the blog post is that, thanks to the rise of digital cameras, the number of photos is skyrocketing, with people taking approximately four times as many pictures as they did a decade ago.

Where those photos wind up has also changed dramatically in recent years.

Of the 3.5 trillion snapshots 1000memories estimates have been taken over the past 200 years, Facebook hosts a whopping 4 per cent of that total, boasting a collection of 140 billion photos. This number far outpaces the impressive collections held by other photo-collecting outfits, including Flickr, Instagram and the Library of Congress.

Do you take analog or digital photos? Do you take both? Where do you store your pictures?

(This survey is not scientific. Results are based on readers' responses.)