in the open space: God & culture

If you have Facebook, you’ve probably seen a lot of “Year in Review” posts, in which Facebook gathers a selection of photos from the past year and puts them together in a kind of mini scrapbook. Chances are you’ve done it yourself. I did. And if you have Facebook, you also might have seen the story going around about one father’s reaction to the meme . For web design consultant and writer Eric Meyer, it wasn’t such a great year . His six year old daughter died of brain cancer. For him, the “Year in Review” was painful.  “To show me Rebecca's face and say 'Here's what your year looked like!' is jarring," Meyer wrote in a blog post, using his experience to illustrate the point that more thought needs to be put into designing code like the one Facebook used for its meme. "It feels wrong, and coming from an actual person, it would be wrong. Coming from code, it's just unfortunate." Meyer’s post went viral—a surprise to him, as he didn’t ...