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So I get a message from FB that a friend has sent some pictures in this Moments app. OK, it's a way to send private (not posted to FB timeline) pictures.
But why is it mobile only? Why can't FB find a way to let me see the images on my computer? Argh. I don't want another FB app on my phone; I'm still bitter that I can't read FB messages on my phone without Messenger installed (but reading them on a computer's browser is allowed.)
Is this somehow Facebook's answer to Snapchat? Not even sure what I'm annoyed with here, maybe there are kids outside on my lawn that should be yelled at.
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I'm only guessing, but FB doesn't have overarching product direction. If one team wants to make something for mobile, there's no requirement it work on desktop. If it's successful, another team may make a desktop version.
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Ask the friend to resend the pics in a non-FB app.
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From what I understand, once it gets access to your photos, it uploads the whole collection to Facebook and runs facial recognition on the pics regardless of any of your "privacy" account settings. It needs to do this for the facial recognition feature to work and it contradicts their promise not to upload all of your photos until it has permission to upload all of your photos.
It makes galleries/albums of photos based upon whom it identifies in each one and all of the metadata (such as geographic location) it mines from each image.
It then sends a series of demands to the user insisting that they share galleries of their pics with each person whom Facebook has identified through the facial recognition. And some people have complained that it bombards the user with demands that the user install Messenger and sends promotional messages for Messenger to the user's contacts. (
What could possibly go wrong?)
The only adults I know who have ever used it did so because someone else sent them a pic or an album the way that you were pushed to download it. They were properly horrified with what they'd done.
Basically, it's a surefire way to alienate anyone you know over the age of 10.
