Facebook, you can take your ‘Friends Day’ video and stick it

The post even says ‘we care about you and your memories’. Stop it, Facebook. You’re making me mist up.
While it’s a vaguely charming concept, often the memories that are being resurrected aren’t the warm fuzzy moment they were hoping for. Sometimes you’ll be met with a pic of an ex-partner (which is a stinging slap in the face if you’re not entirely ‘over it’ and you’re having a vulnerable moment). Perhaps they choose to remind you that your friend who died of breast cancer is no longer with you. Or maybe it’s simply a bittersweet reminder that a pal who was the centre of your world eight years ago is no longer in your orbit.
Yesterday Facebook celebrated their 12-year anniversary by ramping up the Friendship Fail Factor to a new level with the ‘Friends Day’ video — an auto generated collage of photos from over the years. So instead of a single picture you can enjoy a
An added buzzkill is that the montage gives you the opportunity to see how you’ve aged over the years. The only real upside we can see is that the video may have acted as a wake up call for people who post lots of selfies to Facebook — if your ‘friendship’ trip down memory lane consisted of an array of photos of you alone in a bathroom, it may be time to consider your life choices.
Users were quick to voice their dissatisfaction with the Friends Day video on Twitter.