Year In Review by Facebook: It’s just not for All

A new feature called Year In Review, has been brought out by Facebook. This feature started in the month of December. It includes a post that displays up on users’ News Feeds. It highlights the users’ most prevalent photos of the year. A link that appears as a pop-up is given to the users to view their Year In Review and also share it with friends. It is shared with a punch line stating that it was a wonderful year and thanking friends for being a part of it. However, for a few users 2014 would not have been a great year and were not happy to see these routinely generated posts appear in their News Feeds. People who lost their dear ones in the recent past felt it disturbing to see this Year in Review according to Web design consultant and writer Eric Meyer.

Many people who had bad fortunes through the year such as bereavement of beloved ones or family members, or even people who went through divorce or lost a job or any such unpleasant crisis would not like to go through the past year. Many blogs have been written on this issue through the week. Another concern from the users was that the year could have gone bad for many people, but Facebook does not share the Year In Review automatically to family and friends. This could have given a wrong depiction of feelings of people who were in grief.

A few other users have a completely different opinion about the feature. It is highly unlikely to avoid all situations that remind about the bereaved person. There are many situations which in fact revive good memories of the person by looking at photographs and definitely there is no way to get upset by seeing pictures of the beloved ones. The review portrays how the year looked like to the user. Sometimes it’s a jarring feel and could be wrong to people who were unfortunate. People highlighted the blogs that Meyer had posted to bring it to the attention of Facebook. It was very kind of Gheller to personally send an apology letter to Meyer. Though the app seems to be awesome to a lot of people around the world, it brings grief to a lot many than sharing a joy. Hence Facebook is working towards the betterment of the app and thinking of ways to improve it. Meyer had not expected an apology from the Facebook team; in fact he just thought that his blog would not be read by anyone other than his family and close friends. So he sent back an apology to the Year In Review team since he felt that the mail from Gheller was sincerely apologetic.