This sounds like one of the worst “send nudes” texts in the history of sending nudes. Oh yeah, send me some pictures of yourself naked for you know, science and stuff. Seems totally legit. The interesting part is this no joke people! Facebook is actually asking for your provocative pictures and the claim is it’s for your own safety. Apparently, we’re facing some kind of revenge porn epidemic and I had no idea. According to Facebook, they deal with over 52,000 reported cases of revenge porn through their social media platform. All of these reports have to be dealt with human workers investigating each report. As you can imagine, that can be extremely time-consuming. Therefore, Facebook is brainstorming how to fix these issues so you can send nudes with a calmer mind.
Send Nudes:
In the world, we live in today sending nudes just seems like a thing that happens. Therefore, I’ll go out on a limb and say almost everyone with access to a smartphone or Snapchat has sent some form of risque pictures at some point. So Facebook is trying to implement a system that will deter salty exes from trying to ruin each other. The social media giant is potentially turning to science and technology to help keep their pages revenge porn free. I was shocked at the number of reports of revenge porn Facebook gets a month, what is wrong with some people?! I mean I’m pretty sure we agree none of us really want our exes sharing private pictures of ourselves. Although, why am I now imagining how many likes or lack thereof my pictures would get.
How It’ll Work:
The idea is that Facebook users will share their photos with the company through its Messenger app. Facebook then plans to “hash” the images, which is a process that converts the photos into a unique digital code. Once Facebook has that code, it can block the images from ever being uploaded to its site. The company will store the images for a short time in data code form and then delete them. The only thing that will remain is the digital footprint of your nudes in a database to make sure your photos will never be seen by the public via Facebook.
This technology isn’t completely farfetched, as it’s used by large internet companies to deter unwanted content and picture onto their sites. Although, this still does sound unbelievably creepy and uncomfortable. Who knows how the cloud works? Just sending my nude codes to some invisible database in the sky? Where it’ll be stored until the end of time? No thank you. There are definitely other ways to make sure your naked pictures don’t end up on Facebook. Here’s 1 you can just not send naked pictures of yourself. If that’s too much to ask maybe only snap them or send them to people you trust that aren’t complete scumbags. Either way, I will not be sending and sexy pics to Facebook and that is for sure, what do you guys think? I’m thinking, I’ll pass.