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Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos

Posted by timothy on from the how-was-the-parade-otherwise? dept.

Facebook this year showed users a compilation of photos drawn from their own gallery of uploaded images, but the automatic nature of the collation and display of those photos inspired the need for an apology on Facebook's part to at least one reader who was upset by the compiled pictures. That may sound silly, but even innocent data-mashing can touch real nerves. "Eric Meyer, a web design consultant and writer, is one of those people. Earlier this year, he lost his daughter to brain cancer on her sixth birthday. For that reason, Meyer wrote in a blog post, he had actively avoided looking at previews of his own automatically generated summary post. But Facebook put a personalized prompt advertising the feature in his newsfeed, he wrote, prominently featuring the face of his dead daughter -- surrounded by what appears to be clip art figures having a party."

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  1. Re:People Are Such Babies by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's see, we have Mike Brown, who MIGHT have "attacked," though the witnesses are starting to be questionable.

    We have a guy that said "I am not going to jail" and did nothing physically and was choked to death.

    We have a kid who had a toy gun who was killed withing 5 seconds and was never given a chance to comply.

    We have a guy in a wal-mart who had a toy gun and was given less than a SECOND to comply.

    The guy in St. Louis who pointed a gun at the gas station... that's a justified one. We don't care about actual attacks.

    Again, what you just called for was authoritarianism. A black guy should apparently hit the dirt whenever a cop drives by.

    This is coming from a white guy, FUCK YOU, you are part of the problem.. Stop listening to assholes with an agenda like Bill O'Reilly. Learn to do some critical thinking. It's deliciously ironic you accused me of "parroting" when you're the only who can only spout stereotype and hate.

  2. Re:People Are Such Babies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would also add to the list under thug as less serious but still annoying - talking loudly, dressing like a retard, not speaking english properly and listening to fucking shite music.