If you're on Facebook, a new video about your life went live online Tuesday. Yes, you. And you, and you and you.
With the help of an automated tool,
Facebook has created short, personalized video highlights for "hundreds of
millions" of its users. The 62-second clip notes the year you joined
Facebook, then shows a handful of your most-liked posts and a seemingly random
selection of your photos -- all set to instrumental music.
Facebook posted the clips, titled
"A Look Back," without fanfare Tuesday to commemorate the 10th
anniversary of the social network, which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and
four classmates at Harvard University on February 4, 2004.
"People often ask if I always
knew that Facebook would become what it is today. No way,"
"I remember getting pizza with
my friends one night in college shortly after opening Facebook. I told them I
was excited to help connect our school community, but one day someone needed to
connect the whole world."
10 years of Facebook in one graphic
The videos are available to everyone
who uses Facebook in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Turkish,
Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese, a Facebook spokesperson told CNN.
Depending on how much content you
have shared and how long you have been on Facebook, you will either see the
personalized video, a collection of photos or a simple thank-you card, the
spokesperson said.
Facebook said users will be able to
share the video on their pages after 12 noon ET on Tuesday. The videos will
only be available for about a month unless you share them on your Timeline.
Only you will be able to view your video if you don't share it.
If the clip contains posts you'd
prefer to keep private, you can edit them via an "Edit Your Movie"
button, the spokesperson said.
"It's been amazing to see how
all of you have used our tools to build a real community. You've shared the
happy moments and the painful ones," Zuckerberg said.
Facebook has created personalized
slideshows for users, but this project marks the first time the company has
made customized videos. A small team at Facebook spent the last few months
crafting the videos and ensuring the company had the resources to render them
for most of the network's 1.2 billion users.
Source: CNN
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