Facebook Adds Facial Recognition to Picture Tagging

For most folks, tagging your friends and family in pictures isn't a horrid chore, but for photography enthusiasts that can have 50, 100 or more photos to upload at once, tagging feels like it takes forever.

"Since October, we've been working to make this process easier for you," writes Justin Mitchell on the Official Facebook Blog. The last innovation was group tagging, which allows users to type one name and apply it to multiple photos. "Now we're announcing tag suggestions, which will make tagging multiple photos even more convenient."

It's more than just detecting a face and giving you a tag suggestion, Facebook will prompt you for groups of photos instead of going one photo at a time. "Now if you upload pictures from your cousin's wedding," writes Mitchell, "we'll group together pictures of the bride and suggest her name."

Tag suggestions will roll out over the course of the next few weeks, which means your Christmas pictures may have gotten that much easier to upload.