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We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

I never liked the idea of taking a photo just for yourself - I think everything is better when shared.

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.

Sharing is the essence of social media.

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.