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Facebook Makes A Huge Data Grab By Aggressively Promoting Photo Sync
- frdgr 14y agoBesides making security/authentication even more critical, this challenges photo ownership. In Facebook terms of service, the photographer retains rights on their pictures, but transfer to Facebook certain rights to use the work. Want that?
- jrockway 14y agoI'm pretty sure the rights you give Facebook are basically the right for Facebook to display your photo to people you share it with. That's pretty much what any photo service would require you to consent to.
- james-skemp 14y agoIt'll be really interesting to see the politicians that come from those who are teens now. They'll have been connected most of their lives, and have quite the online presence. And hopefully have a better grasp of technology. On-topic: is anyone actually surprised by this?
- sami36 14y agoWhy should we ? Google+ does it, Apple does it, Dropbox does it. I've disabled this feature on all of them, but this is hardly new. It's obvious now that social networks have moved past micro-blogging & articles. Pictures are the new focal point of sharing. They're all angling to make their apps more sticky by lowering the friction of photo sharing. As long as they provide commonsensical & easy to understand privacy controls & a way to download all your data, I'm fine with it. I can even accept the argument that it's a nice convenience to have, phones get stolen, devices are starved for local storage, sensors are getting bigger & so is the data they generate. The problem is, & it's a HUGE one, is an account is a password away from being hijacked. People better educate themselves about security (two step auth) & be careful what they upload.
- iSnow 14y agoOver time this is going to secure a healthy stream of "jailbait" nudes to 4Chan and the likes of it. I can see some ruined high school careers come off this.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoAs much as I dislike Facebook, and don't use their services myself, in the end I think this will be a good thing for the average Facebook user. I'd say 80%+ of people out there fail to have a backup of digital photos and eventually lose them all either through hardware failure, physically losing a device, or some other sort of negligence (on top of not keeping proper backups). I see this being ultimately beneficial to lots of people, as well as a good move for facebook to continue to try and keep people locked onto their platform.
- jackalope 14y agoThis will provide even more fuel for Facebook's face recognition technology, which I believe will one day be Facebook's most valuable product, eventually marketed in sometimes disturbing (and secret) ways. As a fellow nonuser of Facebook, it bothers me a bit that I don't even have to participate for them to develop an accurate facial recognition profile of me; my friends, family and colleagues will gladly do it for them.
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- pav3l 14y agoFacebook is not going anywhere. These are all smart business moves to make it an almost necessary part of our lives. "Facebook is like chairs" seems to quite literally describe the end goal of their campaign. I would argue they are doing a very good job, perhaps on par with De Beers and Coca Cola in their time.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoPeople flee gimmicks for new gimmicks in a hearbeat. Facebook will evaporate one day, like all the fads before them. Sure there is inertia to social patterns. But to overcome it, you don't have to convince 1B people in a row; you have to create impetus enough to overcome one person, times 1B in parallel.
- endlessvoid94 14y agoWhat makes you think facebook is a fad?
- muuh-gnu 14y agoAll the other similar fads before them.
- gojomo 14y agoFacebook has already remained vital and growing longer than the Friendster/MySpace precedents, and the Geocities/Angelfire precedents. They're looking more like email or the web itself. Or the telephone. Or did you have other 'similar fad' examples in mind?
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoNow that you mention it, email! Its going the way of the 1st-class stamp.
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- ChiperSoft 14y agoI pity the damned fools who agree to it thinking "oh that's an awesome idea" and then a month later take a naked photo of themselves.
- ampersandy 14y agoPhoto Sync only syncs your photos, you have to selectively publish them. Even if someone did take a nude photo, no one else would see it unless they shared it explicitly. https://www.facebook.com/help/photosync https://www.facebook.com/help/photosync
- ChiperSoft 14y agoGood to know, but it's still a private photo that is no longer under their control.
- jamesbritt 14y agoEven if someone did take a nude photo, no one else would see it unless they shared it explicitly. Or until Facebook once again changes how things work. Anything and everything you give to Facebook is a candidate for public exposure.
- incognitoMex1 14y ago>>I pity the damned fools Please use more updated expressions. That is so 80's and 90's.
- jackalope 14y agoIt's a perfectly mundane expression, unless you think of everything in terms of memes.
- incognitoMex1 14y agoNot after Mr. T made it passe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPGJrzzq_I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPGJrzzq_I You do sound like a fool if you say those words.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThis is probably just to compete with Google+, which does the same thing, and which Google has advertised on YouTube about (man loses phone with pictures of baby daughter, oh look, they're safe on Google+!).
- travisp 14y agoIt's an effective ad, but I've wondered if it wasn't misleading by implying it was basically a backup service: Google+'s auto upload feature doesn't save the full resolution of the photos. Somewhere out there is a disappointed father or mother who thought Google was backing up their photos, only to find out at the wrong time that Google only saved a reduced size copy (better than nothing, but still...).
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoI'm not sure many users will notice, to be honest.
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- pseut 14y agoJesus, part of why I left facebook was because I got sick of the photo dumps where someone would upload 50-100 unedited pictures of their kid's birthday party. Who could possibly want to look at all of those pictures? I can't imagine that this change is going to make anyone enjoy using Facebook more.