And it recognizes who is in the photo. Often when viewing a photo it will give me a name of one of the people in the photo and ask me if I want to tag it or not. It has never given me a name of someone not in the photo yet.
And it's up to date, and is augmented by much, much more data.
And people give it info for FREE, thoughtlessly.
And they give info not just of themselves, but others! When I finally gave in and got a fb I was surprised they already had my facial info. My mother had been uploading pictures and tagging me in them for years.
I am wondering if you are seeing this as an excuse or as an even larger problem.