{"id":85456,"date":"2016-02-09T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T09:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85456"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:04:55","slug":"why-has-facebook-depressed-so-many-people-with-its-latest-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/why-has-facebook-depressed-so-many-people-with-its-latest-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has Facebook depressed so many people with its latest surprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that <strong>Facebook&#8217;s <\/strong>new <strong>video surprise<\/strong> that celebrates friendship, has not been bringing users the fondest of memories. As you know, Facebook decided to celebrate its<strong> 12<sup>th<\/sup> birthday<\/strong> with a personalized, 58-second video for each user, which consisted of a <strong>photo slideshow<\/strong> of their families and friends. Sounds lovely doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>The only problem was that the photos chosen (clearly automatically selected), were not necessarily the ideal choice, as the video below will demonstrates:<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t view the video? Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QDZwwLvtnBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just some of the comments users made on <strong>Twitter, <\/strong>which also prove that the video wasn&#8217;t exactly sentimental.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThanks for the sentiment Facebook but friends day doesn&#8217;t really work when I&#8217;m not friends with ANY OF THE PEOPLE IN THE PHOTOS ANYMORE!!!!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy Facebook friends day video is just sad due to my lack of Facebook interactions. And also just my lack of Friends.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThanks Facebook: the first picture you show me from that Friends Day video is of my dead dog.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat friends day video on fb would be cute if my ex weren&#8217;t in it multiple times.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cJust did that &#8216;happy friends day&#8217; thing on Facebook. It managed to get 3 of my ex&#8217;s in the space of about 10 photos. I love you too Facebook.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWatched my Facebook Friends Day video! It was mostly people I don&#8217;t know in real life and then my friend who died.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2016\/02\/08\/facebook-friends-day-sparks-controversy_n_9185070.html?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that Facebook&#8217;s new video surprise that celebrates friendship, has not been bringing users the fondest of memories. As you know, Facebook decided to celebrate its 12th birthday with a personalized, 58-second video for each user, which consisted of a photo slideshow of their families and friends. Sounds lovely doesn\u2019t it? The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/why-has-facebook-depressed-so-many-people-with-its-latest-surprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why has Facebook depressed so many people with its latest surprise?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":85457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329318,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85456\/revisions\/329318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85456"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85456"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85456"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}