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by mooism2 4976 days ago
Just what the world needs: a way for people to turn their friends into sex objects.

Do your friends know you're the sort of person to perve over photos of them in their swimsuits?

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As the poster has already pointed out, these are pics that people have already shared via facebook.

Computers sometimes allow us to do things was were already doing, except at a massive scale. Pre-napster, people were already able to share music with their friends via mix tapes, etc. Suddenly they were able to share with millions, without leaving their own home.

Similarly people were already able to scroll through their friends facebook albums for bikini pics. Suddenly they are able to to do it for 5 friends at once, with the click of a button. Changing the difficulty and scale of something can totally alter the dynamics of the situation. It will be interesting to see if services like this alter the behaviour of people 'oversharing' on facebook.

How dare he make something that was already possible, more easier to do!
Well I'm hoping I'm not the only user, and yes all my friends know I'm working on this. And have been for a while. It's not about perving your friends' pictures or turning people into sex objects. These pictures are already up on Facebook, Badabing is just a filter. We will be adding a feature to nominate your friends to a contest, as long as they accept to be in it.
It is about turning people into sex objects, also that contest stuff is really creepy. Just make sure you never add sharing features to the app.
Yeah, it's pretty clear what the bias is here, though. Search your friends for their bikini pics.