Moments by Facebook - A private way to share photos with friends

Seems like an example of, "we have some amazing facial recognition tech that we're not leveraging enough, let's build a product" I seriously could care less. Totally unneeded.

I've always found Facebook to be this strange place that everyone is on, even more then Twitter. So it's very unique for interesting experiments like this, because you don't have to worry about finding friends to test it with, because they're already there. Curious to see how this works. I'll give it a shot, I'm sure all my friends would like to see the photos I (don't) take! :P

The timing of this couldn't be any more perfect, as I just got back from a trip to Half Dome with friends; this is the perfect use case to test out the app. However, I keep coming back to the same thought when I think about this app, and that is that it reminds me so much of Google's new Photos and Dropbox's Carousel. I installed Moments on my Nexus 5, and my phone actually completely froze several times throughout the time the app was creating these "suggestions". Has anyone else experienced this?

"It’s hard to get the photos your friends have taken of you, and everyone always insists on taking that same group shot with multiple phones to ensure they get a copy. Even if you do end up getting some of your friends’ photos, it’s difficult to keep them all organized in one place on your phone." I disagree with the premise of this app, at least for my own personal experience. Facebook has made it so easy to share pics with friends, that I don't find myself ever contacting friends asking for a group shot. And I don't ever feel pain in organizing photos thanks to Moments on iOS. Sure, there's the special event scenario like a wedding, but that doesn't happen very often, and I don't think I want to use an special app for those situations.

I'd be interested to see how much this is influenced by Wechat Moments - private photo sharing for groups of friends that's been around for a few years now.

Would be a cool to optionally create albums on your Facebook profile, also.