'Friends Day' Celebratory Video Freak Out Facebook Users
- Erika Miranda
- Feb 05, 2016 07:10 AM EST
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Facebook's "Friend's Day" not only provided a trip down memory lane, but it also freaked out a lot of people.
In celebration of its 12th anniversary, Facebook provided users with a new photo montage feature that showcases one's memories with their virtual friends over the social media platform.
"When people connect, powerful things happen and lives are changed. We see this on Facebook every day, whether it's an exchange with an old friend that brings a smile to your face or a new connection that changes your life path, or even the world," an official press release posted on the FB Newsroom stated.
The social media giant shared collages of uploaded and tagged photos to users in montage form.
Aside from that, it also released recalculated statistics that claimed that people have become more connected now, proving wrong the conventional wisdom that every person on Earth is separated by six degrees.
"Today we're announcing that during that same time period, the degrees of separation between a typical pair of Facebook users has continued to decrease to 3.57 degrees," Facebook stated.
This means every single one of the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook is linked via the social media site to all the others by about an average of three and a half other people.
With this idea laid out, Facebook declared that its launch date, February 4, should now be known as "Friends Day."
Check out the example below.
The event indeed captured some of the most unforgettable memories using an algorithm to look for pictures on every FB user's profile and mash them up into a video collage of sorts.
However, it did the opposite of impressing some Facebook users, who were freaked out of the algorithm's final product.
According to Telegraph UK, Facebook provided some users a trip down memory lane that they did not want to go through."Many people we have been photographed with, and are Facebook friends with, have hurt us, or we lost touch with them and feel guilty about it every time we think of them," the outlet explained.
Telegraph UK also noted that at some point, the "Friends Day" videos have proven that a lifeless, emotionless and non-human algorithm cannot understand what the memories mean to every Facebook user.
Here are some reactions on the video posted over Twitter:
Friends Day on FB is celebrating some of the most shallow relationships we have. Puro Internet, walang IRL.
Ang lungkot.
— Zsaris Mendioro (@zsaris) February 4, 2016
Gross I just vomited on my telephone pic.twitter.com/rXNxku1ulG — Tom Cheshire (@chesh) February 4, 2016
that friends day video on fb would be cute if my ex weren't in it multiple times
— sadgrrl666 (@punkflop) February 4, 2016
Shoutout to everyone whose Facebook's "Friends Day" video sent them into an inescapable bout of loneliness and depression. #solidarity — Imaan Sheikh (@sheikhimaan) February 4, 2016
What did you think of your Facebook "Friends Day" video? Sound off your thoughts in the comments section below.
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