Facebook Posts Automatic Friends Day Videos

Some users complain the automatically-generated montage is throwing up unwelcome and out-of-date photos.

16:43, UK, Thursday 04 February 2016

Users can swap the photos for handpicked images

Facebook users are getting a personalised video collage at the top of their news feeds today to celebrate the social network's 12th birthday.

The Friends Day video uses an algorithm to "stitch together special moments" of friends and family.
Users have the option of deleting any unflattering pictures and selecting better ones. They can then choose whether to share the highlights reel.
You can also choose the 'Watch Yours' button when viewing a friend's clip to find your own.
However, some users appeared slightly underwhelmed by the pictures selected for their 'best of' montage, with complaints including unwelcome pictures such as dead relatives and ex-partners.
"lol. My Facebook pre made "friends day" video is full of people that don't talk to me anymore so I guess I'll pass on sharing it," tweeted @johndcrain.
@Unpluggedcrazy wrote: "Facebook, your Friends Day video only serves to remind me that I used to be super fat."
Facebook's Friends Day marks the 12th anniversary of the site, which has grown from a Harvard dorm room to the world's biggest social network with 1.6 billion users and more than 12,000 employees.