(Dagbladet): Are you on Facebook, you’ve probably seen it: cavalcade website has put together with pictures you have posted from the year that has passed.
The images or flashback as Facebook calls it, is accompanied with nice line drawings and are selected automatically based partly on how popular image is.
Basically, you just cavalcade, but if you want you you choose to share it with others, so many do. Doing so suggests Facebook following text: “It’s been a great year. Thank you’ve been a part of it. “
Lost daughter
For US Eric Meyer has not 2014 been a great year. In June he lost his daughter. She was only six years old.
When Facebook wanted him to see through his years in pictures, it was a picture of his daughter they had illustrated the advertising service. Around picture drawings of happy people and balloons. It ripped further into grief.
In a post on his blog dated Christmas Eve, he writes about the incident, which also among others, The Washington Post has mentioned.
– Grief found me
– I did not ease after grief in the afternoon but sorrow found me anyway and I can thank designers and program for it. In this case, designers and programmers at Facebook, he writes in the introduction.
Furthermore, he writes:
– I know, of course, that this is not done intentionally. This unintended cruelty is a result of markup language that works for an overwhelming majority.
For all the others who have not had a “great year” may not remind help, the essence of the post.
Regretted personal
It also has Facebook understanding, they say to The Washington Post. The newspaper reveals that they have apologized to Meyer.
– The service was awesome for many, but in this case we brought him clear sorrow instead of joy, says Jonathan Gheller, boss of service.
He says that he has been in contact with Meyer.
– The developers behind the service should look for opportunities to improve the service next year. We’ll take Meyers feedback into account.
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