Appear to be "dead" on Facebook? You're not alone
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Are you dead? Good news! You're not alone. Facebook just "killed" a bunch of its users, and nobody's quite sure why.
The social networking giant inadvertently began switching over some profiles to "memorial" mode, which is only supposed to happen to memorialize a person's profile in the event of their death.
Word of the apparent issue began towards the close of business on Friday. Steve Kovach at Business Insider tweeted a photo of the apparent bug.
"Facebook killed everyone," he said. (We confirmed that he's absolutely fine.)
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And it appears that others have suffered the same issue.
And even Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, wasn't immune from the bug.
Well, you get the idea.
A Facebook spokesperson said the issue was because of a "terrible error."
"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," the spokesperson said. "We are very sorry that this happened and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it."