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How do you tag someone if they don't have a Facebook account? AFAIK it's not possible to tag someone with an email address or telephone number? Certainly you c

by kamjam 13y ago

How do you tag someone if they don't have a Facebook account? AFAIK it's not possible to tag someone with an email address or telephone number? Certainly you can "tag" someone if they are not on Facebook and not in your friends (of friends) list, but it is then just tagged as text, not associated with an account... maybe I missed an option somewhere...

pessimizer 13y ago
>it is then just tagged as text, not associated with an account... Not associated with a non-shadow account.
- webvictim 13y ago
  I would suggest that the noise from associating free-typed tags (subject to spelling errors and without a user account attached) with photos would be way higher than the signal you'd gain. I even have irritating friends that tag people who aren't even present in photos just because they want them to receive a notification about it. All of that is total garbage input to any machine learning model or otherwise.
  - dougbarrett 13y ago
    It'd be easy when editing the tag for the server to say "Does this name match this user in the imported contact list? Yes? Ok, it's most likely that person then."
    - kamjam 13y ago
      I have a lot of noise in my contacts list though. Very rarely do I have a surname, mostly it's suffixed with "home", "mbl" or "work" or even city name as surname sometimes. I'm sure a "best guess" would be possible, I'm not sure of anyone that religiously stores first/last name aside from pure business contacts.
      - aestra 13y ago
        With smart phones with keyboards and cloud sync I think more people are starting to. I do now, and have since 2008 when I started using a smart phone. I've noticed more people switch over from short nicknames to full names with easier input. It's easier than going to your contact and saying "who the heck is James?" Now I just keep as much data as possible on each person. That way I also have their address handy, in case I need to mail them something. I've been meaning to start keeping birthdays in there too, so I can get a notification on my phone.

by kamjam 13y ago

pessimizer 13y ago

>it is then just tagged as text, not associated with an account... Not associated with a non-shadow account.

webvictim 13y ago
I would suggest that the noise from associating free-typed tags (subject to spelling errors and without a user account attached) with photos would be way higher than the signal you'd gain. I even have irritating friends that tag people who aren't even present in photos just because they want them to receive a notification about it. All of that is total garbage input to any machine learning model or otherwise.
- dougbarrett 13y ago
  It'd be easy when editing the tag for the server to say "Does this name match this user in the imported contact list? Yes? Ok, it's most likely that person then."
  - kamjam 13y ago
    I have a lot of noise in my contacts list though. Very rarely do I have a surname, mostly it's suffixed with "home", "mbl" or "work" or even city name as surname sometimes. I'm sure a "best guess" would be possible, I'm not sure of anyone that religiously stores first/last name aside from pure business contacts.
    - aestra 13y ago
      With smart phones with keyboards and cloud sync I think more people are starting to. I do now, and have since 2008 when I started using a smart phone. I've noticed more people switch over from short nicknames to full names with easier input. It's easier than going to your contact and saying "who the heck is James?" Now I just keep as much data as possible on each person. That way I also have their address handy, in case I need to mail them something. I've been meaning to start keeping birthdays in there too, so I can get a notification on my phone.