Thanks for being a part of it.
Thanks for being a part of it.
Thats exactly what happened to prominent web designer and writer Eric Meyer.
In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook.
From his blog, Still, they were easy enough to pass over, and I did.
Until today, when I got this in my feed, exhorting me to create one of my own.
Eric, heres what your year looked like!
A picture of my daughter, who is dead.
Who died this year.
Meyer added, Yes, my year looked like that.
My year looked like the now-absent face of my little girl.
It was still unkind to remind me so forcefully.
It feels wrong, and coming from an actual person, it would be wrong.
Coming from code, its just unfortunate.
These are hard, hard problems.
They model certain decision flows, but once you run them, no more thought occurs.
Meyer recommended Facebook not to pre-fill any pictures until making sure the user actually wants to see them.
He suggested that Facebook would been better off asking users opinion before dishing out such popups in the timeline.
Facebook apologises
Facebook has apologized for this offending error of its judgement.
We can do better Im very grateful he took the time in his grief to write the blog post.
source: www.techworm.net
