For all the fun, innovative and cool features that Facebook have implemented since their inception, they really hit the wall this time round with their latest feature: facial recognition.
In case you haven’t realized, Facebook has been steadily creeping in its “Suggest Photos of Me to Friends” setting for quite awhile now. Although it’s not exactly the newest thing to hit our favourite social media networking site, it definitely has the potential to be one of the most sinister. Would you want less-than-glamorous photos of you floating around on Facebook, with an easy option for your friends to tag you in it?
That’s exactly what the Facebook Facial Recognition software does. Whenever a photo with your face in it gets uploaded by anyone on Facebook (you could just be an innocent bystander at a party or a witness in a traffic accident), Facebook will detect it and suggest to you friend to tag you in it. While this can be of casual fun, the flipside to it is that you have no control over public identification of yourself.
If you thought that was bad, here worse: this facial recognition program is an opt-out instead of the common opt-in. What this means is that the recognition setting has been turned “on” by default and requires to you manually turn it off in your privacy settings.
Check out the video below for instructions.
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For those of you who don't want to watch the video, here’s the skinny on how to do it:
1. Login to Facebook
2. Click on Account
3. Click on Privacy Settings
4. Click on "Customize Settings"
5. Under "Things Others Share"
6. Click on 'Edit Settings' beside 'Suggest photos of me to friends"
7. There is a new pop-up with the options; enable and disable
8. Click on Disable
9. Click on Okay
10. Mission Complete
Assuming you’re the kind who doesn’t log in to Facebook very often, now is as good time as any to do so, lest you find yourself getting ambushed by “nasty surprises” the next time you do.
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