Facebook "Friends Day" videos unearth memories best left buried?

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Published time: 5 Feb, 2016 03:01Edited time: 5 Feb, 2016 03:58

You may have noticed that Facebook decided to celebrate its birthday with personalized Friends Day video montages much to the irritation of social media users the world over, who have been complaining of a cold algorithms failure to comprehend human relations.

Facebook chose to mark their 12th birthday by inundating their users timelines with monotonous montage videos of people nobody is actually friends with anymore.

Either that or they created a nice little trip down memory lane for BFFs everywhere. It depends what side of 20 youre on.

Of course there are some people who insist on being positive and post things like this. Ignore those people:

Okay fine, well watch one more:

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Facebook Introduces "Friends Day" to Celebrate Its 12th Birthday

Facebook Friends Day Video Example

To celebrate turning 12, Facebook has introduced a holiday of its own: Friends Day.

On Thursday, Feb. 4, the social media site rolled out a Friends Day video for users that depict photos with them and their Facebook buddies. As TechCrunch notes, the short videos, which already come populated with images, can be edited.

For Friends Day, you can celebrate the important people in your life with a personalized video weve made for you and everyone in our community, wrote CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Facebook page.

Each year we recognize this day as Friends Day and invite the world to celebrate and reflect on the importance of connecting, according to a Facebook blog post.

Facebook added in its post that its users are now more connected than ever before with some statistics:

Over the past five years, the global Facebook community has more than doubled in size. Today were 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, down from 3.74 degrees in 2011. This is a significant reflection of how closely connected the world has become.

To view your Friends Day video, you can go to Facebook.com/friendsday.

Source: http://fortune.com/2016/02/04/facebook-friends-day/

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