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I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos fr

I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.

mathgladiator 5y ago
Yes, but why tag people?
- mminer237 5y ago
  So they can see themselves in photos? So you don't have to look through all of your friends' photos to find which ones you are in and repost them yourself.
  - croes 5y ago
    Isn't it possible to tag people even if they don't have a FB account?
    - mminer237 5y ago
      You can type whatever you want as a tag, although I've never actually seen someone do this. I guess it could just be used to annotate images, or to recall who's who for your own use, a la how people used to write everyone's names on the back of photos.
paxys 5y ago
Who opted in? I certainly don't remember ever doing it, yet auto tagging has always worked for me (both when I am tagging pictures and when others are tagging me).
- drusepth 5y ago
  The opt-in is at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec -- I definitely remember intentionally opting in when it was added, and it's off on some of my throwaway accounts so I assume it wasn't auto-checked for everyone at some point.
- Jenk 5y ago
  > Who opted in? It was one of those "by continuing to use our service(s), you are opting-in" t&C's updates. So in short: nobody did but legally there is a box ticked.
Jenk 5y ago
Surely one should be able to just tag _the album_ instead of each photo? I always figured this constraint was kept as a happy convenience so that Facebook have a steady supply of training data for their face recognition service. If they are shutting that service down, maybe they'll let us tag albums?
- mminer237 5y ago
  My wedding album has like 200 photos in it. I definitely had relatives who didn't want to look through them all and just asked me to send them the photos with them in it.
  - thegreatdukd 5y ago
    I doubt Facebook won't offer some unsupervised face clustering for albums, they will just remove tagging from images. Google Photos offers me pictures of distinctive people found in my gallery without giving me their names.
  - Jenk 5y ago
    the ideas aren't mutually exclusive.
- kapp_in_life 5y ago
  And then each guest has to go through every picture in the album to find the ones with them to share?

I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.

mathgladiator 5y ago

Yes, but why tag people?

mminer237 5y ago
So they can see themselves in photos? So you don't have to look through all of your friends' photos to find which ones you are in and repost them yourself.
- croes 5y ago
  Isn't it possible to tag people even if they don't have a FB account?
  - mminer237 5y ago
    You can type whatever you want as a tag, although I've never actually seen someone do this. I guess it could just be used to annotate images, or to recall who's who for your own use, a la how people used to write everyone's names on the back of photos.

paxys 5y ago

Who opted in? I certainly don't remember ever doing it, yet auto tagging has always worked for me (both when I am tagging pictures and when others are tagging me).

drusepth 5y ago
The opt-in is at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec -- I definitely remember intentionally opting in when it was added, and it's off on some of my throwaway accounts so I assume it wasn't auto-checked for everyone at some point.
Jenk 5y ago
> Who opted in? It was one of those "by continuing to use our service(s), you are opting-in" t&C's updates. So in short: nobody did but legally there is a box ticked.

Jenk 5y ago

Surely one should be able to just tag _the album_ instead of each photo? I always figured this constraint was kept as a happy convenience so that Facebook have a steady supply of training data for their face recognition service. If they are shutting that service down, maybe they'll let us tag albums?

mminer237 5y ago
My wedding album has like 200 photos in it. I definitely had relatives who didn't want to look through them all and just asked me to send them the photos with them in it.
- thegreatdukd 5y ago
  I doubt Facebook won't offer some unsupervised face clustering for albums, they will just remove tagging from images. Google Photos offers me pictures of distinctive people found in my gallery without giving me their names.
- Jenk 5y ago
  the ideas aren't mutually exclusive.
kapp_in_life 5y ago
And then each guest has to go through every picture in the album to find the ones with them to share?