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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[Anonymous Coward]

In order to complete this post, please enable your microphone and say the alphabet backwards.

No thanks

[rodrigoandrade]

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.

Re:No thanks

[AchilleTalon]

You will still be able to post your drunken pictures, the only thing this application will do is to ask you if you really want to do it given the content or the likely content to be at your disadvantage. You can still decide to post it anyway. It is just like a pat on the back: Are you sure you want to do this?

Re:No thanks

[plover]

Those that need verification prompts to exist in our society, need to seriously rethink their basic thought process and self control.

That's exactly what this tool is for. Those that could benefit from verification prompts are completely unaware that they even have a problem. It's possible that some of them may start questioning their life choices as a result.

Of course, it's also likely to gamify alcoholism: "Dude, Facebook says I've posted drunk for 100 days in a row, that's gotta be some kind of record."

Re:No thanks

[MightyYar]

We are all capable of making our own decisions

I think you are getting drunk wrong.

Re:No thanks

[Oligonicella]

Yes... Well, your last snark is exactly why this is a bad thing. Facebook's algorithms will no doubt have false positives and Facebook will **no doubt** keep these statistics. As with other stats, these can find their way out of Facebook's altruistic hands.

That last, by the way, was a snark. At least the word altruistic.

Yet another law enforcement tool?

[geekmux]

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.

Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Intox

[rsmith-mac]

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.

Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int

[xvan]

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

Re:CAPTCHAs

[oodaloop]

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

Why end the only redeeming feature of Facebook?

[gatkinso]

Seriously.

Re:Or You Could Just Not Drink To The Point of Int

[Slashdot Parent]

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!