You'll have to agree that Facebook is the largest social network in the world, and as such it must do its best in order to keep that position. We all know how great Facebook is, but when it comes to photo sharing it lacks behind other websites with its photo sharing features.
In order to compete with other sites, Facebook has decided to enhance its photo sharing features.

Many photo sharing websites, such as Flickr support high resolution pictures, and in order to compete with them, Facebook has decided to increase the size of stored pictures from 768px to 2048px on the largest edge, which is about 8 times larger than before. As for high resolution pictures, they are already available on Facebook in National Geographic's album and Sports Illustrated's album. Besides increased picture resolution, Facebook has added a new lightbox interface, which resembles to Flickr's galleries.

This is an amazing update from Facebook, and this update should be rolling out today. If you haven't received your update yet, be patient because it is coming soon.

[via Ubergizmo]