(NaturalNews) Have you ever been "tagged" by someone - a friend, a
co-worker, or perhaps someone you don't really know that well but who
may be a friend of a friend - on Facebook? You may want to rethink that
whole concept, thanks to a little purchase the social media giant made
recently.
Facebook has purchased Face.com's facial recognition
technology, which techies say will make it faster and easier to tag
photos, but which privacy experts say could become an issue, according
to a report in InformationWeek.
The social media company,
whose stock price has steadily fallen since its initial public offering
in mid-May, paid between $55-60 million for the Israeli-developed mobile
recognition technology, Techcrunch.com, adding that it "could
potentially allow you to upload a photo to Facebook while on the go,
instantly receive suggestions of whom to tag, and confirm the tags with
one click."
"This is important to Facebook because right now
there's probably a ton of untagged mobile photos getting posted. Those
are lost opportunities for engagement because when you get notified that
you've been tagged in a photo, you probably visit Facebook immediately
to check it. These tags also help Facebook understand who a photo is
relevant to, so it can feature it in the news feeds of your closest
friends," Techcrunch.com reported.
