September 17, 2003
Putting Faces to Names
Eric Lin has an interesting piece for TheFeature.com on how in an effort to humanize technology, or maybe just as a form of self expression, faces are replacing names on mobile phones and on the internet.
Pictures are emerging as a method allowing us to identify each other, it kind of makes you wonder what will be next. It used to be that caller ID was enough, then custom ring tones, and now pictures.
And in an interesting comment on this article from purenergy: "The camera phone has definitely made it easier to capture these identities. What's also really cool is the fact that we can all have different pictures for the same person. I might have a picture of my friend when we were on vacation, but another friend may have a picture of a monkey for the same person. Whatever it is that reminds us of them in such a way that we'll know just who's calling when we see the image appear on our phone.
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