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Nicely done - kind of made me realise how unimportant a lot of the stuff I post on Facebook is though! The photos were nice to see but all but one of the status updates were dumb things that only had relevance the day they were posted and had no lasting nostalgic value.

I'm guessing this was quite a technical challenge to produce a 1 minute HD video for every user on Facebook and have them all available today.

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If you have important, meaningful things to say, a Facebook status update is probably the wrong platform. :)

I don't see why that has to be the case. My posts it showed were about a new job I got in town, when my girlfriend got her first full-time teaching job, the completion of a really difficult junior year. I was impressed with how many interesting things it pulled out while avoiding drunk posts and party pictures.

On the contrary, Facebook is a great platform for important, meaningful things. It's just that most people don't think to use it that way. But I also think most people want to consume important, meaningful things, which would mean there's room for important, meaningful posts.

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