There was a reason why Mark Zuckerberg was named TIME’s person of the year, and that inevitably was, Facebook. The social network now caters to over 500 million users worldwide and brings frequent updates to its features. Facebook is revamping its much used feature, Facebook Photos, an update which just might be potentially controversial and irking for some users.
This new feature from Facebook, will automatically suggest users as to who they should tag in their photos, and it is all going to be based upon facial recognition technology. This feature is called Tag Suggestions, and would be unleashed to U.S. users next week
Understanding Tag Suggestions isn’t tough, as when a user is given the chance to tag groups of their friends in an album, Facebook, using its facial recognition technology in order to group similar faces together will then in turn automatically suggest the user which friend they should tag them with. Facebook will simply fill in the “Who is this?” box along with its suggestion and the user just needs to click on the “Save Tags” button to accept.
For those users who would be more concerned about their privacy, Facebook has given a provision to opt out of Tag Suggestions. They can easily disable the “Suggest photos of me to friends” by going to their privacy settings.
Even though Facebook Photos is quite a popular product, many people still consider photo tagging a tedious task. Tag Suggestions hopes to make that task easier by relatively speeding up the tagging process.
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Via Mashable