Yahoo surveyed more than 15,000 of its users across the globe to promote the beta launch of Yahoo PhotoMail, a feature that enables its users to insert up to 300 photos into the body of an email without exceeding message or attachment size limits.
Yahoo also kicked off a PhotoMail Day in the Life event to drive awareness of the new product. Those people taking part in the survey have been invited to submit personal photos, which will be selected and streamed online as a virtual slide show.
The research also revealed that 57% of respondents feel that their photographs are more important to them than love letters from a "significant other"; that 37% of people reckon that if their home caught fire their photo collection would be the first inanimate thing they would save; and that 24% of respondents said that the loss of a year's worth of photos would be more upsetting than no one remembering their birthday.
Other findings revealed by the survey are that the British prefer to share their photographs via email and that the French take less photos compared with the other six countries that contributed to the research.
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