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What's your opinion on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)? If people used this system, it wouldn't be right. This might seem like a good and helpful system but if we start using it, it'll more likely upset people because not everyone is comfortable with others knowing their emotions, if everyone knows others emotions then we won't have to communicate as much because we have a machine that'll tell us, and jobs will be taken away because we will no longer need them.

Yes, this system would be quite interesting, but many people wouldn't agree with always having others know how they're feeling. They want to keep to theirselves and just think their emotions through, they shouldn't have to share them if they don't want to. In the passage, it says, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." At this point, you'd ask if she is okay. If she doesn't want you to know then she won't tell you so she shouldn't have to. If she does want to talk about it or tell you how she's feeling then she will. The person should always have an option as to whether or not people figure out how they're feeling.

Imagine the person next to you, in this case a girl, is sitting there just staring off into space, you would probably ask them what she is thinking about. If we use this system, then we won't have to ask because we'll already know if she's angry. If you already know she's angry then you wouldn't go up and talk to her, meaning we'd lose communication and that person would lose someone to talk to her emotions about (if she wanted to). In the article, it says, "Eckman has classified the six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness..." This shows that the computer will be able to detect the emotion that person is feeling so you won't have to.

In society today, we shouldn't use this system. Maybe if it was back in the day then it would be more beneficial because we didn't have as many therapists to help but now we have occupations that help us figure out how and why we're feeling certain emotions. As an example, imagine yourself as a therapist. If you're a therapist, you'd have multiple patients coming in your room on a regular basis to talk about how they're feeling, how their day was, etc. and you'd help them figure out why they're feeling happy, depressed, sad, angry, etc. The next day you look on the news and there's a new kind of computer that tells you how you're feeling, but that's your job. When you go into work, only half of your usual patients come in and the next day, the amount splits in half again. Sooner or later, you're down to very few patients but you aren't getting paid enough anymore so you have to quit and find another occupation. This is what would happen to many therapists and occupations similar because the people have a different way of seeing their emotions now.

In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System is not a good idea. This system would make society more anti-social. We should work on finding more ways for people to come together and communicate with each other and this would do the opposite. It would make the people who do not want everyone to know their emotions upset/angry, it would make us lose communication, and some of our occupations would be lost. Those are some examples of how the FACS is not very beneficial.

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