In the time it takes you to read this article, nearly three million images will have been uploaded onto Facebook and more than half a million pictures carefully curated into little squares on Instagram. That's 350 million pictures on Facebook and 80 million images on Instagram every single day. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then... well, it's a lot of words.
We now live in the digital age. But it is also a visual one, with lives and experiences which once would have been scribbled down in a diary late at night now lovingly recorded on social...