Facebook today announced on its blog about the latest features in the photo application are being discussed and implemented by the Divvyshot team (the company that Facebook acquired some months ago). Facebook has now rolled out the face detection feature for photos uploaded by users. Now when you upload photos to Facebook, the system will automatically perform face detection in the photos and will prompt you to confirm a friend’s name, whether or not the automatic detection is right.

Facebook says,

With this new feature, tagging is faster since you don’t need to select a face. It’s already selected for you, just like those rectangles you see around your friends’ faces when you take a photo with a modern digital camera. All that’s left for you to do is type a name and hit enter. Cool, huh?

The then-Divvishot team is now working on make the photo application even more better by making improvements in uploading, managing and tagging of photos.