Facebook boosts photo size, makes them load faster
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Facebook is increasing the size of photos that people post to its website and making them load twice as fast as before.
Photos will now be 33 per cent wider, with a variable height. The last time the company increased its photo size was in March 2010.
With 250 million photos being added each day, the photo-sharing feature is one of the most popular on Facebook.
Facebook said Friday that sharing photos is one of the most popular activities on its social network.The new features will be available to users over the next few days.
In addition, Facebook has made some changes to its photo viewer. It has now been streamlined with a cleaner interface as the lightbox has been changed to a white background that places more emphasis on the photo
