Observe #5

For my observe this week, I decided to pick option 1 because facial recognition popped up on my Facebook page. I think someone may have done this already but it caught me off guard so I wanted to use it for an observe. I thought this message this was a strange way for Facebook to bring up an “important” topic because I was aimlessly scrolling through my Facebook page hoping to see videos or posts with not that much text (because that’s what I’m most interested in on FB), and I was surprised to see a whole paragraph of text in a random message from FB. Normally, if I see huge paragraphs of text on my home page feed I will not even acknowledge them, because I’m one of those people who uses Facebook for pictures and videos, but because it was from FB I was intrigued. I feel like Facebook made this post in such a subtle way that it was almost meant to be over-looked, because they could have easily sent this message out to users through an inbox or notification system so users would be forced to read a notification, but instead, it was slyly inserted in my home feed which I thought was interesting. 

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