The point was to highlight the good memories, the happy times in the last 12 months.
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It works like this: when Your Year in Review appears in the News Feed, Facebook will automatically suggest 10 photos from the past year, doing its best to filter out the bad stuff before they’re surfaced.
“We won’t show you photos where memorialized accounts or exes are tagged, or photos with people you’ve blocked or added to your On This Day preferences”, a spokesperson said. Unlike a year ago though, the social media giant has ensured that its algorithm weeds out all the sad memories. Within the “Year In Review” app, users can now browse through it and remove the pictures they do not wish before sharing it with the world.
The internet is filled with articles that summarize what happened this year in different areas such as politics or technology.
Facebook last year apologized after Web designer Eric Meyer wrote of his anguish after pulling up his Facebook Year in Review on Christmas Eve and seeing a photo of his daughter Rebecca who had died.
If any photos which evoke sad memories make it through Facebook’s filter, they can be removed, edited or replaced. And, like it did previous year, displaying them out for everyone else to see. Just click the “Edit” button found on the bottom of the page (on the desktop) to start weeding out photos you don’t want to see on the dedicated album. And there is something that tries to keep us that way and that is Facebook.
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And now, hopefully none of us will have to go through a similar thing this year. That way, they can avoid accidentally showing pictures that certainly wouldn’t be in the holiday spirit.
