What is Facebook?, Facebook is hugely popular social networking site that allows you to make connections, share interests, join groups, and IT'S FREE!.On the other hand- Just think, what does Facebook own that is worth the billions of dollars that investor sunk into them since the Initial Public Offering ? It's your data. sound scary right? But that's not the issue right now.
Recently Facebook added new features where it automatically know who's in the picture that your upload called Facial Recognition Features. But it only work if you're already listed as being "friends" with -- not some randomly identifying people in crowds or anything. Will Facebook stay with this current "Only Friends" rules? as i know Facebook has a long history of changing their rules, either temporarily or permanently, that i have don't really believe it will remain " Only for Friends" in the future. Will they stop giving strangers about our information?
Why they even created this features and release it to everyone?, is it people are getting very forgetful or too lazy? or maybe you are very popular that got too many friends to remember their face or name. even a machine can't detect your friend in your childhood. Let say, i was on my class and there is someone i want to know and to make -- a friend of mine. i don't take -- picture secretly and use Facebook to stalk. that obviously a stalker job. Unless you are Secret agent from Police / Military / NSA / CIA / FBI / to detect criminal in order to bring peace to this country or a Batman, now you'll have my permission to stalk ( p.s. it's a batman joke )
From my opinion, we as a Facebook user don't get too obsessed with it, don't reveal to much about your information. You can meet in person if want to know more about whoever you want to know, One more thing, Even Though i didn't really like the new features, i still a Facebook user because it's the only way for me to keep connected to all my families, friends and also as a medium for me for showing my skills as an animator.
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Written by Syed mohd Asyraf - 1121117104
Yes, all things in this world have advantages and disadvantages. It is unfair to blame all things 100% where ourself can think and be responsible for what we did. They; in this case Facebook, only developed this feature just to pleasure their client and trying their best to make us happy.
ReplyDeleteThe advance version of Facial Recognition already exists for quite some time now, but it's only being used by the authorities and licensed parties to help in crime investigations. But the idea to use it on social network such as Facebook that is available to public, is just frightening. Those uploaded photos don't need to be embarrassing, just a normal photo will do for facial recognition to work its magic.
ReplyDeletewell like i said, do we really need this features?, u wont have problem tagging your friends name manually. it make u feel like u really know them, not some computer application. if u know what i mean. Just let batman do his work with this kind of application
ReplyDeleteFirst thing just like you said this new feature can somehow get throughout a person life. For my opinion, this feature somehow are quite frightening. This make a criminal job much more easier to target their victim. This feature also has it's own good side which can detected your long lost friend or even find a missing kid. Do I agree with your opinion, not really because this feature like I stated before can help a lot of people in many ways.
ReplyDeletei dont think a long lost friend can be detect with their really young face and also missing kid, is that a job for police? ofcourse the police department should have this kinda of application. i dont think facebook will do much unless you really lazy to tag your friend name, actual use of it is "Making Photo Tagging Easier" this is the original post by facebook engineer http://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=467145887130 do we really need to take risk for this small featured? what if they evolve it to everyone not just friends
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