{"id":3869,"date":"2014-02-04T23:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T04:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:55:14","slug":"a-look-back-at-my-time-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2014\/02\/04\/a-look-back-at-my-time-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook look back: Cool or not cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/85894006\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In recognition of their 10th anniversary, the team over at Facebook added this new feature that enables users to automatically generate a video montage of the most memorable posts, pictures and events that they have shared since joining the popular social network. Considering that the video was probably compiled and edited via a set of programming based algorithms, I have to admit that I was impressed at the end result of my video. However, many of my friends had different takes on the new feature.<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends likened the automated video creation to coming home and finding a stranger going through your photo albums and pulling random pictures out. Another friend called the videos <!--more--> &#8220;creepy&#8221; because &#8220;how could Facebook truly understand what memories are most important to me&#8221;. Others reported not needing to be reminded of past relationships, deceased relatives, or the loss of beloved family pets. And despite really liking my own video, after looking a number of my friend&#8217;s video, I totally see their point.<\/p>\n<p>The look back videos were extremely &#8220;algorithmic&#8221;. The sampling of the movies I watched ran the entire gambit from depressing, to inane, to some that nearly made me cry, and others that were wildly inappropriate in really funny ways. And while I thought that the feature worked well of off my posts, photos and likes, in the end when all is said and done, the problem with algorithms is that they can&#8217;t account for things like individual taste and common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of their 10th anniversary, the team over at Facebook added this feature that enables users to automatically generate a video montage of the most memorable posts, pictures and events that they have shared since joining the popular social network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,18,2],"tags":[758,523,122,521,522],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-video","category-lifestyle","category-new-media","category-technology","tag-digital-video","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}