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  I go out of my way to not have pictures and videos exist with me in them but uh yeah no probably so, I’m definitely in some that people were taking of their family and friends rock climbing because I was helping the people do it and then who knows how many photos I’m somewhere in the background of.
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  Probably more in the 100s of millions if you take CCTV into account >
  
  100s of millions? that’s a bit of a stretch.. i’d go up to millions maximum. unless you’re talking every frame of a cctv camera is a picture in which case 30 pictures a second IS a lot.. >
  
  If you went by fps as each frame is a picture and depending on your age 100s of millions isn’t that out of the realms of possibility really could be anything between 15-30 frames of your person every second your in a public place so the possibility of over 100000 frames per hour just while in the supermarket. Crazy really >
  
  that’s exactly what i said; if you’re thinking of it that way; 100s of millions isn’t that far out there, definitely achievable. but if you’re just talking about photos i wouldn’t say more than the hundreds of thousands or maybe millions. >
  
  If you work in view of a camera, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for one year, there is 179,712,000 frames of video, assuming the video is recorded at 24 frames a second.
  That's in view of one single camera. 
  Where I work I'm usually seen by 3-4 at all times.
  Terrifying. >
  
  holy crap that’s way more than i was expecting. billions if you’re recorded by multiple cameras throughout that scenario you described. that’s in one year? crazy. >
  
  Pretty sure an ex of mine from like middle school still has a picture of me as his youtube profile >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  i dont have an ex ._. >
  
  Enjoy it while it lasts >
  
  It would be cool/creepy/unnerving if you could do a "global" Google photos search - across every account/picture they have -- for your own face and see what comes back outside of your accounts. >
  
  If this technology does not already exist it is inevitably on the horizon >
  
  For google photos the tech definitely exists.  But of course you cannot access everyone's private photos, it's a matter of policy / security/ privacy for obvious reasons. >
  
  But my uncle works at Nintendo. >
  
  Went to a party once (back in the 90's,so pre digital). It was a friend of a friend, so I knew pretty much no one. The toilet was wall-papered with photos. I was checking them out and then found one of me. Full portrait just starting back at me. This freaked me right out. Went back to living room and said "hey. There's a photo of me in the toilet!". The response was along the lines of: "we've been wondering for months who this guy is and then you just turn up one night! Who are you?" >
  
  And, how did that end?
  You cant leave us hanging like that. >
  
  Sorry. So it turns out that the friend of a friend was friends with a local band.  She was their photographer. Went to check them out with my friend and ended up sitting at a table with the band et al during a break and got my photo taken. I didn't notice it happening at the time. My contribution to the conversation was insufficient for anyone to remember me. The photo turned out to be a good ice breaker at the party and I had a great night. Not good enough to get me laid, but that's life. >
  
  I loved this story so much, thank you for sharing lol >
  
  My pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I haven't thought about that party for a long time. >
  
  I was once visiting Amsterdam with some friends. We went to a coffee shop on a boat. Smoked a couple of joints. It was so potent that we basically just sat there staring at the table for about an hour. At some point I looked towards the canal and saw that there was one of those tourist boats there checking out an example of an Amsterdam coffee shop, complete with stoned people (us) . Everyone on board the tourist boat was taking photos of the coffee shop and us. I then noticed that there was a new tourist boat every 5 minutes or so. My friends and I are probably being displayed as examples of stoners in Amsterdam in hundreds of photos around the world. >
  
  I met a couple walking around King's Canyon in Australia. They offered to take some photos of me & share them with me afterwards. After the walk I stayed behind to do the loop again while they went back with the tour group, not thinking we had no way of contacting each other. So for me there's photos solely of me that I'll never see! >
  
  With the number of people I've photobombed at conventions over the last nearly 30 years... I'm surprised there isn't a website where people compare images and try to identify this weird guy in the back of all their photos. >
  
  I don’t look at the pictures of me that I know exist - why would I care about the ones I’ll never know exist? >
  
  Schrödinger's pictures? >
  
  I live on the side of the Eiffel tower and have to cross the famous place (Trocadéro) 4 times a day. Considering the number of tourists, I would say there is potentially hundreds of pictures with me in the background...just for this week. >
  
  I worked as a "ride technician" at an amusement park in sevierville tn (gatlinburg area). Over the 13 years i was there i managed to put myself into the background of thousands of pictures taken by the tourons with me smiling and waving at the camera. Only ever got caught in the act once. They laughed and invited me into their next pic. >
  
  I worked with a travelling carnival for a year operating rides and never really thought of it but must certainly be in some pictures. >
  
  Troubling thought … well I hope the pics are really flattering. >
  
  I work with wildlife, and we release hundreds of sea turtles throughout the year at the beach of a popular tourist city. We get hundreds of people attending eaxh release, and they all have their phones out taking pictures and videos of the super cool experience, but SOMEONE has to be holding them. 
  Who knows how many family holiday pics I'm in, haha, let alone scattered across Facebook/social media posts. Every now and then, one will pop up that my workplace is tagged in or a friend of a volunteer shares, so I'll see it on occasion. Super weird to think about sometimes haha