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Pop quiz: what’s the largest photo site on the web? Flickr? Photobucket? Picasa? Nope, it’s Facebook.

Like me, you might find that fact a bit surprising, since we don’t immediately think of Facebook as a photo sharing site — that’s just one of its features.

What’s even more interesting when thinking about Facebook as a photo sharing site is that it has a built-in permission system that says that if you are tagged in a photo, you are given permission to see that photo.

A new Mac and Windows application called PhotoGrabber uses that permission (and your credentials) to go harvest all of the photos it can find of you on the service, and download them into a local folder. It can also download all the photos you have access to of your contacts.

Interestingly, it doesn’t appear to download profile pictures, but sticks strictly to photos where the target person has been tagged.

Download all the Facebook photos you’re tagged in using PhotoGrabber.