Facebook Messenger To Get Facial AI Recognition

Facebook has been growing steadily and improving its underlying technology on the platform. And, keeping with that tradition Facebook is going to roll out a major update to its messaging platform – Facebook Messenger. Messenger is going to get facial Artificial Intelligence recognition.

Now before you go and say that this is a complete new technology; well it’s not. In fact this technology is already available in the main Facebook app. It’s the one that let’s people tag their friends on Facebook photos.

Once the update is available for everyone, you will be able to see the friends who are in the photos you send on Messenger, and share those pictures with them.
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The reason why Facebook is incorporating this tech in its Messenger app is because it wants people to be more engaged, especially considering Facebook has 1.01 billion active users a day – which as you can image is staggering!

The update is not going to be available for everyone as the update is going to be rolled out to people in Australia first. There is no word on when the update will be rolled out to every country but it is expected that it will be available soon.

This is definitely great news for those people who use Messenger on a regular base. Any thoughts?

Facebook’s New Feature Will Help You Through A Break-up

Facebook is bringing tons of new features almost every week, each with its own pros and cons. But the latest update from Facebook is a pretty interesting one, especially for those people who are going through a break-up or don’t want to have too much contact with their ex.

Generally whenever a relationship ends, either the person removes them as friends or completely blocks them. So to “improve the experience when relationship ends”, Facebook is introducing a bunch of new features that would allow you to remain ‘friends’ with you ex but won’t get much of them.

Some of these features are:

•     See less of your ex’s: Facebook posts, pictures, suggestions and when it comes to tagging them in pictures it won’t show their name.
•     Your former partner will see less pictures, videos and status updates.
•     See all the previous pictures of you guys together and decide whether to untag or remove them.

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Currently this feature has only been rolled to mobile users in United States. Other countries will follow suit.

It is an interesting take by Facebook relating to relationships. What are your thoughts on this?