The infamous Kegs & Eggs incident has been cited on every local news outlet lately, and has been staining U Albany’s name with images of drunken wrecklessness and delinquent students.
On the radio station Fly 92.3, the Thursday morning show had Christy, a guest from the Times Union, on air to speak about the event (I was unable to catch the last name, because I was on the Northway, on my way to school, and I could not write or record anything while driving).
Christy, the blogger, talked about how the students who particiapted in the infamous riots were unwise to forget about this new age of digital recording, and social media that we live in, as almost every single person was caught on a digital camera, or camera phone. She went on to say that the quality of the recordings, while not professional, is still good enough to get clear images of faces.
The Times Union explains it in this article, where Albany Police essentially warn suspects that they would be stupid to not turn themselves in, before someone who can identify them does.
Assisting the police in identifying those who will not turn themselves in was the most interesting thing I got from the on-air segment featuring this story. They were discussing the new feature that Facebook has introduced, for those camera owners with trigger fingers:
Now, when you upload an album to the website, it will electronically search your pictures for familiar faces, and pre-tag your friends in them, based on similarities it finds in facial features from other tags of them. From my experience of it so far, it’s pretty damn accurate, too.
As we head into the future, Facebook will finally make up for all the years of aid it has provided to creeps and stalkers, by turning it’s act around, and helping the good guys for a change. Social media fights crime.
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