If Facebook Wasn't Already Creepy, Wait For This!

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg is at it again. Facebook has recently opened several patents to be able to gauge the user's emotions via their PC, tablet or cell phone.

The first patent, entitled ‘Augmenting text messages with emotion information’, proposes that features can be added to details on how the emotions of a Facebook user could be added to texts to reflect the feelings of the sender. This can be predicted based on “characteristics of a keyboard input.” Put simply, the firm would read a person’s emotions based on speed and pressure of how they tap the keys.

I wonder how they would interpret this?

Or this?

But the above pending patent is not the one that concerns me the most. Facebook has also opened up another patent request called ‘Techniques for emotion detection and content delivery.’ This application filing shows Facebook’s desire to watch its users through their smartphone cameras or webcams.

The proposed system would capture the target’s image, identify the user’s emotion and store the data. Based on this, Facebook could determine which emotions a piece of content elicits and use the data to target its users. It's hard to believe that the following music video may be coming true 30 years later.

Video courtesy of Vimeo Sung by Rockwell (feat. Michael Jackson) 1984

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell
Lyrics:

Who's watching?
Tell me who's watching.
Who's watching me?
I'm just an average man, with an average life.
I work from nine to five; hey hell, I pay the price.
All I want is to be left alone in my average home;
But why do I always feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone, and
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Tell me is it just a dream?
When I come home at night.
I bolt the door real tight.
People call me on the phone I'm trying to avoid.
Well, can the people on T.V. see me.
Or am I just paranoid?
When I'm in the shower.
I'm afraid to wash my hair.
'Cause I might open my eyes
And find someone standing there.
People say I'm crazy.
Just a little touched.
But maybe showers remind me of
"Psycho" too much.
That's why. . .
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Who's playing tricks on me?
Who's watching me?
I don't know anymore . . . are the neighbors watching
Who's watching?
Well, it's the mailman watching me: and I don't feel safe anymore.
Tell me who's watching.
Oh, what a mess. I wonder who's watching me now,
(WHO?) the I.R.S.?
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Who's playing tricks on me?
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
And I have no no privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I can't enjoy my tea.
I always feel like somebody's watching me.
I want my privacy.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Stop playing tricks on me
Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me.
Somebody's Watching Me lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

We now know the name of that somebody and it's Mark Zuckerberg!

Now where is my dislike button!

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