I’m still getting my grey-matter around the concepts and the potential but my first instinct is I don’t like it and that it’s all going too far too fast.
Face detection technology has some scary potential.
You want the best seat in the house? You want the ultimate in customer services?
Is Face Detection the future? Probably, but I wish not.
I’ve got no problem with the whole ‘social’ thing but, for me – this facial recognition technology – it’s taking ‘invasive technology‘ way too far – and there seems to be no ‘opt-out’ button.
Crossing the line between ‘social networking’ / ‘social marketing’ etc., into ‘get the heck out of my face‘.
Please, please, please stop all this craziness. We don’t need to be on candid camera while we enjoy a meal out with our family, friends and colleagues.
As many have said about Facebook ‘Face Recognition’ and the potential: ‘Scary’.
On a commercial level (to follow very soon) this suggests that your individual ‘loyalty’ counts for nothing – but the value of your twitter & facebook list is what will matter (as soon as you walk in the door face detection can evaluate your real value by checking how many friends and followers you have).
Invasive Technology
No thanks. Too much. But someone will develop it and someone will sell it.
Let’s see how this could potentially play out:
You book a restaurant table. You enter. Your face is detected. The restaurant owners send out a ‘Tweet’ or a Facebook status shout that tags YOU as having entered the restaurant – promoting the restaurant and ‘geo’ tagging you (and, possibly, your entire family) – nice to know that the whole world knows you and your family are at Bernies Burger Bar and your house (easy to find via the geo-tagging link to street-view and the link to satellite imagery) is empty…
But at least, thanks to having 437,976 twitter followers and 4,875 Facebook friends, you had a great seat, the best burger money can buy and a perfectly chilled Budweiser – and got a doggy bag!
No thank you very much.
What do you think?
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