Everything is Wrong With Facebook's 'Year in Review'

Facebook's Year in Review isn't just irritating to scroll through, it's algorithm is also severely messed up (though you can customize it). This week, the social network apologized to Eric Meyer after he wrote this blog post about his Year in Review "highlighting" the death of his baby daughter. He wasn't alone, other users tweeted about Facebook calling out a tragic house fire and others deaths; things you really don't want to remember as 2014 comes to a close.

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Facebook’s Year in Review isn’t just irritating to scroll through, it’s algorithm is also severely messed up (though you can customize it). This week, the social network apologized to Eric Meyer after he wrote this blog post about his Year in Review “highlighting” the death of his baby daughter. He wasn’t alone, other users tweeted about Facebook calling out a tragic house fire and others deaths; things you really don’t want to remember as 2014 comes to a close.

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