Chapter 1. Challenge Your Vision
On Christmas Eve 2014, I went to Facebook and was greeted by an ad promoting Year in Review, a feature I had been deliberately avoiding.
But there it was in my newsfeed. Staring out at me, framed by dancing clip-art partygoers: the face of my middle child, Rebecca, who had died of aggressive brain cancer on her sixth birthday, June 7th, 2014.
The dissonance between that profound personal tragedy and the party images created a visceral moment of shock. The copy, “Here’s what your year looked like!” added its own surreal layer of horror.
—Eric
YEAR IN REVIEW is a Facebook feature that allows users to create ...
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