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Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts

Posted by samzenpus on from the are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-that? dept.

First time accepted submitter blueshift_1 writes Remember that photo that you posted to Facebook sophmore year of college when you thought there was nothing more important than partying and letting everyone you knew how hard you partied? Well facebook is now trying to buzzkill every one of those moments. With their upcoming feature, they'll be using photo analysis algorithms to detect how intoxicated you were in the photo and suggest that you not post it. Which in the end, is probably for the best.

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  1. No thanks by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hereby declare that I can take care of my own posting and am fully responsible for my actions, drunk or otherwise.

    Fuck you Big Brother.

  2. Yet another law enforcement tool? by geekmux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So when Facebook compiles all of this information into one large data set and labels the results file "underage drinking" to sell to law enforcement, we won't be surprised at all when arrest rates increase in highly targeted areas with great "success", right?

    The power to abuse large data sets should not go unnoticed, and there are quite often more reasons than one to justify a new feature or service.

  3. Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Intox by rsmith-mac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to be preachy, but it always strikes me as odd to what lengths some people will go to mitigate the damage their drinking does, rather than exercising just a bit of self control and not drinking to the point of intoxication. Having to make computers take care of us in this fashion and stop us from harming ourselves just seems silly.

  4. Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int by xvan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sometimes, drinking to the point of intoxication is the point.

  5. Re:CAPTCHAs by oodaloop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, a literacy test should drastically reduce the number of posts on Facebook.

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  6. Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "turn to alcohol" is a very judgmental attitude. I love drinking - I like the taste of great wine, beer and drinks, and I like the feeling of intoxication and enjoying life with others while intoxicated. Doesn't mean I can't enjoy, or cope with, life when not intoxicated, but I don't have to choose just one or the other.

  7. Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to be preachy, but

    Have you ever noticed how the words, "Not to be ___________, but," always seem to precede a bunch more words that are the epitome of ____________?

    I have!

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