Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead (fortune.com)

On Friday afternoon, many Facebook users logged into their accounts to see that the social media site declared them to be dead. Fortune's Jeff John Roberts reports that the bug has impacted their editor Rachel King: The lethal online epidemic is causing Facebook to display a small memorial message above users' regular homepage profile. In the case of my editor, Rachel King, Fortune tech writers who visited her page discovered a "Remembering Rachel King" message, and a wish to remember to remember and celebrate her life. I can assure you that Rachel is very much alive (and reminding me about the Oxford comma). But if you're wondering what it looks like, here's a screenshot. I'm still alive (for now) but it appears the bug is spreading quickly to others in the media, and has reportedly even affected the pages of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. While Friday's wave of Facebook fatalities was clearly a bug or a hoax of some sort, the social network does offer a function that allows people to turn the profile pages of loved ones into a "Memorial." The company has since fixed the bug and offered an apology: "For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was briefly posted to other accounts. This was a terrible error that we now have fixed. We are very sorry that this happened and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it."

Comments

We're not dead, we're in a simulation

[ArtemaOne]

Wake up

Re:We're not dead, we're in a simulation

[Kjella]

We're not dead, we're in a simulation. Wake up

If you do, are you still in a simulation? It's basically 2500+ years of philosophy that the Matrix first touched on and Inception continued, is anything real? Does it matter what's real? If it's a good dream, don't pinch me.

Re:We're not dead, we're in a simulation

[ArtemaOne]

Right, as if those polls took into consideration how many "Never Hillary" and "Bernie or Bust" people there would be by the end of things. Did you see how few people voted? Trump took the bare minimum expected and Clinton took far below any expected minimum thought possible due to people disliking HER specifically.

Re:We're not dead, we're in a simulation

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

If it's a good dream, don't pinch me.

After Trump won I kept jabbing myself with a needle to try and wake up. Now I'm just doing it so I can feel something.

Apologies: Status update was 4 days 2 hrs early

[Timmy D Programmer]

Please accept our apologies for prematurely updating your profile status. Please be assured the status has been corrected, and will be updated at the appropriate time on Tuesday. Sincerely, Facebook

CNN

[Anonymous Coward]

CNN: "Donald Trump kills thousands of Facebook users."
Brian Williams: "I was there."

well, they're not dead, yet

[turkeydance]

this is just encouragement

Obligatory

[Yvan256]

We apologise for the fault in the statuses. Those responsible have been sacked.

I'm not dead!

[PPH]

I don't want to go on the cart.

If only

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead"

If only it were true.....