A glitch happened on Facebook happened yesterday when some people woke up to find on their profiles a memorial banner sitting on top of it, urging their friends and family members to remember them.
It even happened to Mark Zuckerberg himself.
https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/797177651261751296
Many people took to Twitter to say that they were still alive.
in other news, Facebook's algorithm thinks that i ****died**** based on the messages i'm getting #RIPme pic.twitter.com/IfoCDumNCi
— Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF) November 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/MikeWehner/status/797175484274589697
https://twitter.com/alexia/status/797173539681898496
After finding out about the glitch, Facebook released a statement saying, “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.”
The company declined to say what caused the problem or how many users were affected.