I never really understood why some people habitually
tag their Facebook friends’ ID's to clothes, flowers, furniture, restaurant
menus, dogs and cats... just about anything other than the persons
themselves. It’s no wonder then, when you browse their photos in their
Facebook profile, 90% of the tagged pictures show nothing but inanimate objects
(the remaining 10% being dogs and cats), making you wonder if the poor buggers
are even human.
When I browse a friend’s tagged photo, I expect to see just
that - my friend’s face. Not Fifi her neighbour’s chihuahua, a pair of
Prada stilettos that does not even belong to her, or a club sandwich on the
TGIF menu.
So much for the Facebook developers taking all that trouble to
build-in the automatic facial recognition feature (yes, people - in case you
have not figured it out even after reading this far, you are supposed to tag
your friends’ faces) in the photo tagging function. They may as well
have saved themselves the trouble, and designed it to recognise a horse’s arse.
Yes, I know what these blockheads are going to say, “Oh, I
tagged those pair of shoes to their ID, because I wanted to mention about it to
them.” To which I respond thus, “If you are a regular-enough Facebook
user to know how to tag someone in a photo, surely you are also familiar with
the [@person’s ID] function in the comments text-box (if not, please go and
learn).” That will just as certainly ensure that they get notified of your
“mentioning them” in their e-mail Inbox, and it takes just as little effort to
execute. For Pete’s sake, please learn to use your tools properly, as they were
intended for.
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