Facebook boosts photo size, makes them load faster

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is increasing the size of photos

that people post to its website and making them load twice as fast

as before.

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Photos will now be 33 percent wider, with a variable height. The

last time the company increased its photo size was in March

2010.

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Facebook said Friday that sharing photos is one of the most popular

activities on its social network. Users upload more than 250

million photos each day. Facebook said the new features will be

available to users over the next few days.

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The changes come the same week that Facebook said it is letting

users pre-approve having their names attached to a photo posted by

a friend before that photo appears on their profile. The tagged

photo will still appear on the friend’s page and could show up in

the news feeds of common friends. But users can remove their names

after the photos are posted.

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