The automated feature brings to the front of a member's timeline a
series of images and posts from 2014, just to show how brilliant a
twelve-month period it's been but makes no allowances for those
unfortunate posts that bring back the most painful and haunting memories
possible.
The feature coupled with a tag line saying "it has been a great year" brought grief to a web designer expert who named the app as "inadvertent algorithmic cruelty" as it forced him to relive the pain of his young daughter's tragic death.
"This is not a deliberate assault. This inadvertent algorithmic cruelty is the result of code that works in the overwhelming majority of cases, reminding people of the awesomeness of their years, showing them selfies at a party or whale spouts from sailing boats or the marina outside their vacation house," Eric Meyer wrote in an article titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty," Eric Meyer in an article titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty."
The feature coupled with a tag line saying "it has been a great year" brought grief to a web designer expert who named the app as "inadvertent algorithmic cruelty" as it forced him to relive the pain of his young daughter's tragic death.
"This is not a deliberate assault. This inadvertent algorithmic cruelty is the result of code that works in the overwhelming majority of cases, reminding people of the awesomeness of their years, showing them selfies at a party or whale spouts from sailing boats or the marina outside their vacation house," Eric Meyer wrote in an article titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty," Eric Meyer in an article titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty."
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