Facebook Apologises For The Glitch That Told Users They Were Literally Dead

 Social media can be creepy. It’s weird that all our dumb, drunk thoughts will be available to the world centuries after we’ve died, as long as the internet still exists. So Facebook has made that all the freakier, with the accidental announcement that many of its users had shuffled off this mortal coil.

A bug in Facebook’s Memorial feature appeared on thousands of accounts owned by healthy, living people – leaving much of the site operated by the dead. 

Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was slain:

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Luckily – users seemed pretty chill about the unexpected apocalypse – hitting Twitter to complain about Facebook.

RT if you dead on Facebook

— Vann R. Newkirk II (@fivefifths) November 11, 2016

Legitimately disappointed that Facebook didn’t list me as dead because now I still have to answer my texts

— Conrad Close (@conradclose) November 12, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg: What should we do after Facebook Live?

Facebook Exec: Facebook Dead?

Mark Zuckerberg: Bingo.

— Samir Mezrahi (@samir) November 11, 2016

It’s been fixed up now. A spokesperson for FB confirmed the fuckup:

“For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts. This was a terrible error that we have now fixed. We are very sorry that this happened and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it.”

If you’re still unsure how you’re holding up – breathe into a mirror. If it doesn’t fog up you’re dead, and if you can’t see yourself you’re a vampire. Easy.

Source: Techcrunch

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