Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Children profiles on Facebook

"In order to be eligible to sign up for Facebook, users must be thirteen (13) years of age or older." - Facebook Help

So instead when tagging a photo most people tag a baby or child with the account of the child's mum or dad. Why? because obviously there is a need to be able to identify your child or someone else's child in a photo and share it with friends and family. And lets not forget find photos based on those tags.

I understand why having a profile for a baby or child is against the terms of service and also why some people are against starting a Facebook profile for your child, but what I am imagining is that instead of opening up profiles to every living thing Faceboook should follow the natural way things happen in the real world. A mum and/or dad should be able to create a sub account for the child and then at a certain age when the child gets his/her own profile can choose to inherit the content tagged against his parent's subaccount. Sort of like a history dump or backfilling with your personality.

I wonder if the parent should be allowed to keep the subaccount forever... "You", through the eyes of your mum :). I am sure every teenager would reply "No".

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Facebook Photo Search

Today I found myself with the need to get my hands on a photo that contained two friends of mine. The first thing I thought of was to go on to Facebook where I knew I had tagged both of them in numerous photos together. To my surprise there was no way (that I know of) of doing this today.

I should be able to go on Facebook and search my photos for photos that have specific people.

For example: SEARCH photos of Person1 AND Person2


This functionality will become even more usefull with the autotagging applications that are starting to be released.

I know that this can be done because when you are looking at photos of a person Facebook gives you the option of viewing photos of that person and you in the same photo.


Why would Facebook not offer such a functionality? cost of processing? Does Google's Picasa already have this? How should a Facebook photo search look like or function?

UPDATE: this already exists and works just as expected. As Nick O'Niel from Allfacebook.com just told me this feature is currently a prototype and you can add it using this link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=113716318847