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January, 2012

Unflattering

Facebook adds option for users to request photo takedowns due to unflattering images.
Facebook apparently gets so many requests to take down photos because they're unflattering that they've added an additional option for "I don't like this photo of me." It doesn't actually get a photo taken down, rather it's "designed to trigger compassion from the photo posters." I'm not sure why I find this so interesting, but something about the basic humanity of being embarrassed by a photo and having to find a way to deal with that through software is very interesting. In some ways I'm surprised we don't hear about lots more stuff like this from Facebook, after all with almost a billion people on the platform they surely run into "human problems" on a regular basis.
January 5, 2012
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