Facebook Apologizes For Pain Caused By 'Year in Review' App

(Yibada) - Facebook apologized to a user for the grief its "Year in Review" app has caused. The app shows a series of pictures uploaded in 2014 based on an algorithm

A Facebook user Eric Meyer was hurt by the "Year in Review" app's preview. It showed a picture of his dead daughter, who he lost to brain cancer on the child's sixth birthday.

Meyer, a writer and a web design consultant, wrote his disappointment in a blog post, saying that he is avoiding the app's preview, which automatically appears on his news feed without his consent.

However, Meyer does not blame Facebook directly, but the design flaw in the app.

According to Meyer, some Facebook users might not want "another look" at the past year.

In his blog post, Meyer writes a few suggestions to improve the app, including asking the user first if he/she wants to see a preview.

According to the Washington Post, the "Year in Review" app shows the design problem of algorithms and codes, which are not "intelligent."
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