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Comment by stedaniels | Hacker News Reader

Really annoyingly, Facebook's selection of photos was way off for me. I've been married over 3 years, with my wife for over 4.5 years, yet it still chose to include photos of ex girlfriends. Facebook has all the data it needs to discern that was a bad idea. Quite an oversight in my opinion as I know several people who it affected too so they didn't publish the video.

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Ex-girlfriends are part of your past whether you like it or not. I can speak with most of my ex-girlfriends, and it was a nice trip down memory-lane to watch the pictures of me and them.

I am not running from my past, and I appreciate the time that we had together.

That's a nice sentiment but do you think your wife or their new beaus feel similarly?

What exactly is the value of the "social graph" if it is never applied by the one company in the prime position to do so?

A HN-specific analogy would be: would you work for a startup who can't accept what you did prior to employment?

A wife or new beau who can't accept that you had a past may not be a good idea for the future.

touche

Yeah. Look Back isn't a compilation of your current life. It's about the last few years of your life on FB. Of course it includes ex-girlfriends.

Good point, when we ask pictures not to show our ex, we're asking for a history rewrite, as if they never existed. It may be hard to face them but we may have to.

The point is that Facebook should be "smarter" enough to account for the majority of people who don't ~need~ pictures of their ex-girlfriends brought up post-marriage.

Your pompous and aloof reply doesn't really apply here. I'm good friends with my ex, invited her to my wedding, and occasionally meet down the pub. What I'm sure my wife, nor my ex's significant other, would've been happy with was cosy pictures of the two of us which I've failed to prune from Facebook. Whatever floats your boat I suppose, each to our own.

I've think they've updated it since then. You can now go through and manually select the photos and statuses that you want to include in the video.

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