Monday, January 30, 2012

Week 4: There is an app for that!

Find your face on that book!

One day, my friends and I had this really interesting idea. What if you can just take a head shot photo from a person and the app can find that person on Facebook for you.  That is amazing. What if you are too shy to talk to someone like? The app can help you to know that person even you don’t know that person in real life. You know what they like before they tell you. Is there privacy problem? We will leave that to Facebook. If you choose not to show any of your information on your Facebook, then the app won’t show it.

The basic idea of the app is to use face recognition on the Facebook profile picture. What if that person has a picture of a dog or something that is unrecognizable? That the app won’t work.

The app may sound like a little creepy. However, Facebook is creepy. One of the main issues is convince Facebook add the face recognition plug-in. And also Facebook has to allow the app uses Facebook databases. If Facebook said yes, everything will work fine. The main function of app is to scan faces and try to find the right match picture on Facebook database. Will there be stalkers problem? Even without this app, people can still find you on Facebook and stalk you. Let just not see the app as a stalking tool. We should see it as a tool to help us make friends easier.

The app would be free to download. Of course, there will be an upgradable version, which will cost about 0.99 cents. An upgraded app will be able to see to the person’s photos too. You can poke that person right on that app. You can even add and massage that person right on that app.

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