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Related: About this forumYou know what would be really good of facebook to do? Start an ancestry ancestral
photo identifying app. That way, if someone in the world has identified a person in an old photo....that could be input. And people with photos of the same people could upload them onto facebook and see them tagged with a name.
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You know what would be really good of facebook to do? Start an ancestry ancestral (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2014
OP
I'm just the ideas person. Yeah I guess the chances of someone being misidentified
applegrove
Jul 2014
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littlemissmartypants
(25,304 posts)1. Be careful what you wish for as thoughts on
Documentation vary with chain of custody arguments.
applegrove
(123,001 posts)2. I'm just the ideas person. Yeah I guess the chances of someone being misidentified
are great. Maybe ancestry.com would be a better place. But facebook already has the software.
littlemissmartypants
(25,304 posts)3. You are right. I have thought about it also.
But do they even see that? They would have to be motivated.
applegrove
(123,001 posts)4. I'm not the only one thinking things up.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)5. Facebook insists that my first cousin on my paternal side is actually my
fourth cousin on my maternal side. And that one of my relatives is Pope Francis.
applegrove
(123,001 posts)6. You are correct. It could very well be
a nightmare.