The discussion in class about Facebook's new facial recognition technology inspired me to research further on this topic.
As you would assume, most people think this is an extremely creepy feature of Facebook. Though I tend to agree, it's not really as bad as it sounds. In fact, it seems like it'll be a time saver for those people who are avid photo posters.
When you tag a friend in a photo, Facebook will remember what the friend looks like, and will suggest tags in the future if it recognizes your friend in future picture posts. Users have the ability to opt out of using this feature, which is good for those people who are creeped out.
Though it is wild to think that technology has advanced so much that computers are able to identify people based on their facial structure, this piece of technology being added to Facebook photo posts isn't that big of a deal to me. To me, it seems like this technology is speeding up the process of tagging photos, which is something that the user was going to most likely do anyway. If the poster of photos isn't happy with the tagged pictures, they can always untag their friend's name. Also, if the subject of the picture isn't happy with being tagged, they can always untag themselves as well.
More is discussed in an article off PC World called Why Facebook's Facial Recognition is Creepy
Did you know that over 200 million photos are uploaded to Facebook per day?! I didn't...
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