Social networking may have a need for speed but Facebook’s latest feature to speed up tagging-- assigning a name to a picture – is raising users’ hackles.
Facebook, admittedly the most popular social networking site on the internet, yesterday apologized for its launching of the new system without duly notifying users.
Facebook said it should have done more to notify its millions of members about the global launch earlier this week.
The new feature, called Tag Suggestions, scans photos and automatically picks out existing friends.
Users however told BBC News that they were not explicitly asked if they wanted the new feature to be activated.
Defending its quick launch, Facebook explained that the feature, actually a year old but launched globally only recently, is aimed at identifying users’ faces particularly in new uploaded photos which friends will see.
Users however take exception to the automatic tagging feature, although it was understood that friends do the identifying, not Facebook.
Other observers however noted that it was tantamount to Facebook urging friends of users to go ahead and identify faces, whether they intend to or not.
Privacy experts have argued that users should have more control over who is tagging them, insisting that privacy should always be the default position of any social networking site.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand has made no secret of his mantra that life on the web should be social by default, with privacy as just an option.
source: http://www.daybreakingnews.com/post/Facebook-Says-Sorry-For-New-Tagging-Feature-That-IDs-Faces-Automatically-.aspx
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