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Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts
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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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.
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.
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.
No, this is wrong...totally wrong. HR departments need a way to filter out all the partiers and drunkerds. Facebook has become their number one tool in choosing which employees to discriminate against.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Sometimes, drinking to the point of intoxication is the point.
detect how intoxicated you were in the photo and suggest that you not post it. Which in the end, is probably for the best.
Not bad. Now if we can just get them to suggest that you not post things when you don't look intoxicated, they'll have covered all the cases where not posting things to Facebook probably for the best.
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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.
Implying that narcissistic addicts of social media could or should exercise good judgement and self-restraint?
Oh, that's fucking rich.
Indeed, a literacy test should drastically reduce the number of posts on Facebook.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Seriously.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
So all of my facebook posts are going to be deleted?
There are many people who suffer from a lousy self image. They may feel that they are the only ones who have ever done stupid things. It can be quite theraputic to realise that almost all people have really humbling moments and actually be able to see people that you deal with every day during those moments. If you had the flu and found yourself on the bathroom floor spewing from both ends your mind has a snapshot of what you felt you looked like. How about being able to see your boss under very similar conditions? Or how about the night your banker got drunk and punched his wife and left home in cuffs in a squad car? I doubt there is anyone out there that has not had times when they looked or acted like they belonged in a trash dump.
"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.
If you're using FB on a phone they do, if your friends or someone related to you has it in their contacts, etc.
If you give it to them...
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
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!
They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
When someone starts a sentence with "I don't mean to be...", there's at least a 99% chance that they mean to be.