Is Facebook Sentient?

November 18, 2007 · Posted in Facebook, design · Comment 

My brother got married last month. Since then, he’s been on his honeymoon, but his friends have been uploading pictures of the wedding to Facebook. Today he changed his relationship status to Married.

Then this showed up in my feed:
Is Facebook Sentient?

The spooky bit? The photo was uploaded and tagged by someone else, but Facebook figured out that a recent picture of the two of them would be a good way to illustrate the change of status. Was it just a coincidence that the picture was of them at the altar?