Stunt Double


Facebook has added in a lot of features over the years — some good, some not so good — but there’s one aspect of their technology that may help solve a lifelong question.

If you meet me, there are certain facts that are likely to elicit what I consider overblown responses about their novelty, mainly that I am left handed and have a twin sister.  Yes, I understand neither of these are tremendously common, but each brings its own series of questions I have answered a hundred times.

With the twin thing one of the most frequent questions is if we look alike.  The answer, I say, really depends on whom you ask.  To some people there’s a big resemblance while others think we don’t look anything alike.

Thanks to Facebook’s face recognition feature when you upload photos, we may have an answer.  At least, we now know what computers think:

I uploaded a picture the other day with all of my siblings in it, and Facebook only tried to tag one of the faces.  It’s mine, but Facebook think it’s my sister.

What do you think?  Here’s perhaps the greatest picture of us that will ever be taken:

And one more for good measure:

October 31, 2011 By cjhannas family technology Uncategorized Share:
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