Majority of Photos Flagged on Facebook are Not Offensive, Just Unflattering
Majority of Photos Flagged on Facebook are Not Offensive, Just Unflattering
Posted 01/05/2012 at 3:18pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Facebook has revealed much about the human condition, and now it’s reminding us how vain we humans can be sometimes. According to a recent interview with Facebook’s engineering director Arturo Bejar, the majority of photos flagged by users as inappropriate are actually just unflattering images of the user that reported it.
Facebook has a whole raft of content that it does not allow. Nudity, drug use, harassment, and spam are all reasons to report a photo on Facebook. After noticing the trend of unflattering photos in the filter, Facebook engineers added an option in Spetember to the reporting dialog that simply states, “I don’t like this photo of me.” The social network does not remove images in this case, but will message the user who posted it to give them the opportunity to remove it voluntarily.
This isn’t just a blip in the data; Facebook gets over 250 million photo uploads per-day. There’s no mistaking people’s narcissism in this case. Perhaps a more logical course of action than flagging images that don’t catch you at the right angle could be to just disable tagging.
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Bhusta
January 09, 2012 at 9:30pm
It doesn't stop people from considering the picture of them approved out on the floor!
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Holly Golightly
January 09, 2012 at 12:37am
I deleted my FaceBook page, and my life as improved. I recommend everybody to delete their FaceBook account. It actually feels good. Knowing nobody can stalk you anymore. Now I can go out and talk to real people... If I could actually find real people to talk to. Now-a-days, everyone has an iPhone and is posting a status update every second on this dumb social network. Enter the real world people... There is more to life than Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.
ApathyCurve
January 06, 2012 at 8:03am
Since Facebook is populated primarily by women, college kids, and teenagers, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
acidic
January 05, 2012 at 5:41pm
how bout people just get a life and go out and actually socialize with people ? i guess im just old fashioned or not hip enough to understand people these days
Gezzer
January 05, 2012 at 8:58pm
I'm with you on that one. Don't use Facebook or Twitter. At work in the break room all the younger employees spend their entire breaks glued to their phone. It's like a morgue in there sometimes. The art of conversation is being lost and replaced with speed thumb typing.
aca20031
January 05, 2012 at 3:26pm
" After noticing the trend of unflattering photos in teh filter, Facebook engineers added an option in Spetember"
Should use a spell checker there friend.
My assumption is that most people fail to educate themselves about Facebook's options, and therefore don't know about the ability to disable tagging of themselves. But even with this option, it doesn't prevent people from seeing the picture of them passed out on the floor!
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