Well, that's awkward.
Despite beingness really much alive, Facebook users, when logged on to their accounts on Fri afternoon, constitute their accounts turned to a "memorialized account," strongly suggesting that they are dead to everyone who visits their profile.
H5N1 contestation on Mark Zuckerberg's profile read:
"We promise people who dear Mark volition notice comfort inward the things others part to retrieve in addition to celebrate his life."When the message appeared, thousands of users shaken past times the incident complained on Twitter almost their premature digital deaths, offering their proof-of-life in addition to thus that their concerned relatives could calm themselves down.
This weird glitch was offset spotted past times Business Insider when several of its employees saw the message at the meridian of their Facebook profiles on Friday.
When reached out to Facebook for an explanation, a Facebook spokesperson has provided the next statement:
"For a brief menstruation today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts. This was a terrible error that nosotros cause got straight off fixed. We are really sad that this happened in addition to nosotros worked every bit chop-chop every bit possible to ready it."
It straight off appears everyone on Facebook is dorsum to life in addition to things cause got calmed down.
Facebook introduced the memorial characteristic inward 2015 later on a release of high-profile cases where families wanted to access their loved ones' social accounts.
The users tin opt to cause got their draw concern human relationship completely delete later on their expiry or plow into a memorial page in addition to thus that their Facebook friends in addition to families tin exit messages in addition to part memories on their profile.
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