Facebook's New Facial Recognition Software: Creepy or Cool?

Old tech.

Minority Report....we're getting closer.

Being the paranoid individual I am... it makes me wonder who else is using this and for how long.. sounds like a tool for law enforcement and FBI or CIA use... more or less a tool for big brother.. especially since the FBI and CIA stalk Facebook and other social networking sites... The real question is... Who is more paranoid? Me? Or them?

...and creepy.

Facebook is overstepping its bounds by creting a database of facial recognition. This is very scary!

what if i dont want to be tagged on tones of photos. this should be an option for the uses to enable or disable.

or what if it is glichy and makes mistakes, i dont want my name tagged to some random girl from taiwans picture, defs should be an option

You can opt out, but FB can still find your images using the facial recognition.

which it still very creepy

Welcome to the future.

It is incredibly convenient when I'm uploading a bunch of pictures at a time... I don't have to go through each picture and tag everyone.

I don't like the idea.

Why don't they just admit it. Facebook is the new FBI. They simply don't care about privacy.

How is it creepy? Eh, now this is creepy.....

"AND DO THE CREEP!! AHH"
:)

I have seen the movies, have you? Where the guy is going down the street, running from the cops because they think he did something that he didn't and facial recognition software from the hundreds of cameras all around the city, zeros in on his face and alerts the authorities to where he is....Fact or fiction?

Someone with some smarts can make TONS of money if they start another type of FB without all the creepy stuff and constant changes. Different colors, fonts and emoticons--and a dislike button! I know there's MySpace, but there was a reason FB was created and is more popular. I shouldn't give my ideas away so easily, but really, who hasn't already thought this should happen?

If you're going to put your photo online where hundreds/thousands/millions of people can see it, don't be surprised when, shock horror, people actually see them.
I know one person who uses Facebook for one reason. To get photos of friends/acquaintances for joking photo-hops; he does it in jest, there are no doubt others who do it more seriously. This was before the recognition feature.
It's a pretty impressive trick, this image recognition, by all accounts. Might not be brilliant, but if people would try to help improve it, and make it more accurate instead of making a big circus, there'd be less 'cyberstalking'. But seriously, if you're going to make an online profile, be prepared.

once my fb profile was closed because i couldnt have recognized a monkey photo and some other weird photos. o_O

Nah - just ANNOYING. It isn't even good facial recognition software. It will 'recognize' five different people as one. Whatever. I just don't use it.

Too much info, I don't use my pic on Facebook and don't post pics of my loved ones.

i dont like facebook

I feel like face book is using the permission we give them to use us as Guinea pigs in their social experiments to design even more technology that the can sell us / enslave us later. We are turning into a scientific dictatorship to the point where they control us by our own habits using technology.

MY Call if I want _____ id'd

Enough with freakin Facebook!

There is a lot creepy about Facebook.

Everything fb does is cool..:)

Knowing that Facebook is in bed with Obama and that Obama is all about BIG government makes this even creepier.

Perfect stalker material, that's what it is

tagging your friends in your pictures?

No, not tagging, the facial recognition

The facial recognition is for tagging, and making tagging easier. When you post pictures it automatically asks you if the person in the picture is "so and so"... and if is right you leave it the way it is and if it is not you fix it. Sometimes it works, other times not so much.

I just hate the lack of privacy facebook has now. If that ever appears on my facebook, it will disappear...

FB's new security alert - facial recognition! To Protect yourself, change your settings: Account > Privacy Settings > Customize Settings > Things Others Share : Suggest Photos of me to friends > Edit Settings > Change "enabled" to "disabled" > Okay

Thank you very much. :)

iPhoto has had it for years, as have others. Its a tool to more easily tag people in the photos posted... The paranoia is silly. Does anyone think the government is tracking anyone through some teen girl's prom pics?