Facebook’s #FriendsDay is about to ruin your News Feed with cheesy videos

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by Sindy Cator on February 2, 2017 at 9:56 am

Facebook is again celebrating ‘Friends Day,’ a made-up holiday that sees people around the world gleefully sharing algorithmically-made videos while others hide out on Twitter until it’s all over. We get it. The best way to celebrate your friends is to chase them off Facebook until this is all over. And this year, we get to start two days early — color me excited. The last two years, the holiday was celebrated on the fourth of February, a day Facebook claims to be its official birthday. It’s unclear, though, why Facebook decided to shift the date this year. Perhaps it was to separate…