Facebook: Disabling Facial Recognition

Facebook recently added a facial recognition feature that has some people worried about their privacy and settings. In short, the feature will attempt to recognize faces in pictures when they are uploaded, then suggest that face be tagged should it recognize a face from that users friends list.

While it seems relatively harmless, some might decide to opt out of that feature. Heres how:

Disabling Facial Recognition

• Log into Facebook.


• In the top-right corner click on Account and go to Privacy Settings.


• Click "customize settings" (toward the bottom-middle of your screen).


• Look for the section titled "Things others share." The permission you accidentally gave Facebook to use facial recognition suggestions is located in the "Suggest photos of me to friends" option. Click on "Edit Settings" to change that.


• Choose "Disabled" and then push "OK."

Marketing Mobility

Printwear Magazine, June 2011.

Throughout our daily lives it has become easy to ignore the growth of the mobile market. Aside from tuning in our own mobile devices and cell phones the subject seems to be so common that perhaps we're ignoring some opportunities to market our businesses to the millions of mobile users who spend a significant amount of time online. In this Internet Strategies column we take a peek into Location Based Services such as Foursquare, and how you could be getting traffic through your shop doors through these online channels.

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