WNYC - It's been a great year! Or, has it? You might be asking yourself that as you scroll through your Facebook feed trying to ignore that "Year in Review" app that randomly gathers your photos and scotches them together into a presumed personal narrative of 2014. But not everyone is thanking Facebook for the memories. The Washington Post writes: "The posts are slickly designed, even if their visual uniformity can make scrolling through a news feed of the digital holiday letters a bit grating. However, in some cases the summaries can go beyond irritating and become downright cruel." Take web designer and writer Eric Meyer: tragically, he lost his 6-year-old daughter on her birthday in June. When he went online recently, Facebook's invite to "See Your Year" featured a photo of her smiling face. In a blog post titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty," Meyer wrote: "I didn't go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to than
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