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Surely one should be able to just tag _the album_ instead of each photo?

I always figured this constraint was kept as a happy convenience so that Facebook have a steady supply of training data for their face recognition service.

If they are shutting that service down, maybe they'll let us tag albums?

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My wedding album has like 200 photos in it. I definitely had relatives who didn't want to look through them all and just asked me to send them the photos with them in it.

I doubt Facebook won't offer some unsupervised face clustering for albums, they will just remove tagging from images. Google Photos offers me pictures of distinctive people found in my gallery without giving me their names.

the ideas aren't mutually exclusive.

And then each guest has to go through every picture in the album to find the ones with them to share?

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