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09-12-2016, 07:00 PM
Facebook automatically turns man's near-fatal car crash into a happy slideshow
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You try, Facebook. You really do.
The social media network unleashed a new feature to its mobile app in June which automatically turns your photos into a slideshow video, complete with music and silly graphics. But like other Facebook bots, the feature lacks sensitivity, such as its Year in Review feature that stirred up some bad memories (http://mashable.com/2014/12/27/facebook-year-in-review/) for some of its users previously.*
Recently, Josh Gibson (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm-tURBAA0wXgwq-5qLab2Q) learned that the slideshow video lacks the same empathy when Facebook turned a video of his car accident into a quirky video.*
In the Reddit comments where Gibson originally posted the video, he explains (https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/52aypc/facebook_automade_a_chipper_video_slideshow_of_my/d7jgwdb)that the video Facebook made was only available for him to view at first, but "it was too funny **t to share."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/12/facebook-slideshow-fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Fail (http://mashable.com/category/fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Watercooler (http://mashable.com/watercooler/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Videos (http://mashable.com/category/videos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/te-tkbnd2R0
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You try, Facebook. You really do.
The social media network unleashed a new feature to its mobile app in June which automatically turns your photos into a slideshow video, complete with music and silly graphics. But like other Facebook bots, the feature lacks sensitivity, such as its Year in Review feature that stirred up some bad memories (http://mashable.com/2014/12/27/facebook-year-in-review/) for some of its users previously.*
Recently, Josh Gibson (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm-tURBAA0wXgwq-5qLab2Q) learned that the slideshow video lacks the same empathy when Facebook turned a video of his car accident into a quirky video.*
In the Reddit comments where Gibson originally posted the video, he explains (https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/52aypc/facebook_automade_a_chipper_video_slideshow_of_my/d7jgwdb)that the video Facebook made was only available for him to view at first, but "it was too funny **t to share."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/12/facebook-slideshow-fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Fail (http://mashable.com/category/fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Watercooler (http://mashable.com/watercooler/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Videos (http://mashable.com/category/videos/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/te-tkbnd2R0