Facebook Moments was launched back in 2015 as a new way to manage pictures of you and your friends by uploading them all to the app, where the company’s facial recognition software could easily identify and let you share them with friends. Unfortunately, development of the app seems to have stopped there, and today, Facebook announced that it’ll be pulling the plug on Moments on February 25th, via CNET.
Moments was an interesting attempt for Facebook to hook more users, but the app didn’t actually link those photos up to Facebook proper, leaving it in a sort of no man’s land. Facebook employed user data for things like figuring out who your friends are or when their birthdays are,…
Written by Chaim Gartenberg
This news first appeared on https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18196110/facebook-moments-app-photos-face-scanning-sharing-shutdown-february-25 under the title “Facebook’s photo-harvesting Moments app is shutting down next month”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
