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Facebook's "Year In Review" Hitting Some Users Where It Hurts

Thanks to an imperfect algorithm, Facebook’s “Year In Review” feature is leaving some of its 1.3 billion users feeling hurt and betrayed. Take Web developer and author Eric Meyer, whose review featured his deceased daughter, Rebecca, who succumbed to brain cancer on her sixth birthday, this past year. “My year looked like the now-absent face of my little girl,” Meyer writes in a blog post -- referring to the artificially-upbeat message that most Facebook users have received, which tells them: “Here’s what your year looked like!” Says Meyer: “It was … unkind to remind me so forcefully.”
 

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