I can't tell if Aspyn is making a joke or not, but she tweeted this photo. If he's some hot singer I don't know him. But she didn't use fangirl terms. She said:
Since its national boyfriend day... I'm so proud of you, babe! ❤️So I don't know if he's her boyfriend or some singer she likes. He's probably some international singer that everyone knows so don't make too much fun of me.
By doing a reverse image lookup, it appears to be Vance Joy, an Australian performer.
https://twitter.com/vancejoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
So I think it is a 'dream boyfriend' or Aspyn's version of Harold Glass. (Come to think of it Aspyn reminds me of Jan Brady.)
Reverse image lookup?! Now my scattered brain is no longer interested in Aspyn's boyfriend. But that was a good one, on Aspyn's part. What is reverse image lookup?
shareIt is this handy dandy skill I learned from watching Catfish: The TV Show. In google images you can drag and drop a picture into the google image search box and it will go out and find it if it exists on the internet. It how they have been catching catfishers.
Here is the how-to page from Google.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808?hl=en
I just showed it to a bunch of my high school students to demonstrate to them how their pictures on the Internet have an entire life cycle that that weren't aware of.
That is fun but it comes up with some weird stuff. You have to have a lot of photos for it to find a person plus it's just not using the image, it's using anything written about that person. I put in Sam's famous half photo and it came up Jackie Overton. But all the famous people popped up.
shareYeah, when I discovered it, Sam's photo was the first one that I used to do my test search. One of the problems is that Jackie changed the name of the file a couple of times, so it slowed down the search.
Oh the funny, but tragic side of this, one of my grandson's said he had a girlfriend he met online. I told him to send me her picture. She came up as a porn star from Germany. Needless to say, I have a very crushed 16 year old grandson. I told him to do his 'shopping' a little closer to home.
It isn't easy being the "mean" grandpa.
If there are lots of photos of someone that's a good app, but it came up with some weird results for people I put in who I know have lots of photos on Facebook.
shareThe logic that the search uses is interesting. It actually looks for file names that are similar; e.g., it isn't facial recognition software. It also helps if you save the file to your computer and then copy and paste, rather than use the copy and paste from a website.
I have been playing with this ever since I started watching Catfish last Spring. It takes a while to figure out how to use the app.
I just saw a tweet from a guy I follow who is hilarious. He just tweeted, "Okay Google, when was the last time I washed these sweatpants?"
All the photos I put in I downloaded from my computer. If it isn't facial recognition, which is obvious, when it couldn't find anything on my niece and came up with 'blond', a person has to have a strong presence on the internet. But it was interesting that it was able to detect the color of her hair?? It found my photo I use on Twitter but I use it on Gmail, Instagram and any place that needs a photo.
I never knew that. Very interesting. I am going to go try it now. Thanks Desertdude...
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