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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts) Wed Nov 28, 2012, 06:06 PM Nov 2012

Facebook cannot tell an elbow from a breast

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-confuses-elbow-nipple-timeline-photograph/story?id=17829690&fb_ref=abc-fb-recs#.ULaEeGf4KCQ

By JOANNA STERN (@joannastern)
Nov. 28, 2012

Look again at that photo. Yes, we know, the first thing you think you see is a breast or a nipple. But look again. It's very clearly an elbow.

You looked closely. Facebook, however, didn't.

Last week a website called "Theories of The Deep Understandings of Things" came across the photo and decided to test Facebook.

"We post lots of art and also funny stuff on our Facebook page. Some of them, naturally, have some skin -- art and the non-art. We have discovered that Facebook standards are pretty much Bible-esque," the CEO of "Theories of The Deep Understandings of Things" told ABC News. He said he preferred not to reveal his name.

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(check out the linked site "Theories of The Deep Understandings of Things" for some very interesting art

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Facebook cannot tell an elbow from a breast (Original Post) SoCalDem Nov 2012 OP

Rec'd for the link DollarBillHines Nov 2012 #1

How can you expect them to tell an elbow from a boob meow2u3 Nov 2012 #2

DollarBillHines

(1,922 posts)

1. Rec'd for the link

Reply to SoCalDem (Original post)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 06:50 PM

Nov 2012

You're right, that is some really interesting art.

meow2u3

(25,251 posts)

2. How can you expect them to tell an elbow from a boob

Reply to SoCalDem (Original post)

Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:17 PM

Nov 2012

when they're boobs who don't know their asses from their elbows?

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