As post-election political rantings are taking over social media, Facebook is apparently trying to do population control.
A glitch on the social media site triggered memorial alerts at the top of many users’ pages on Friday — including that of CEO Mark Zuckerberg!
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The notices began to appear at around 3:45 p.m. EST and came complete with some heavy wording, for instance:
“Remembering Mark Zuckerberg. We hope people who love Mark will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate his life. Learn more about memorialized accounts and the legacy contact setting on Facebook.”
Yikes!
The company hasn’t explained just what caused the glitch — but after the apocalyptic week we just had, it seems like a social media rapture couldn’t come at a better time.
See what the affected users had to say about the eerie anomaly (below):
Facebook just declared me dead, along with everyone else on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/Ck8bTBiZmJ
— 🦃 Myke 🍂 (@MikeWehner) November 11, 2016
Super awkward. Just got a @Facebook notification prompting me to change my account to a memorialized one. Why does fb think I’m dead?
— Jacky Habib (@JackyHabib) November 11, 2016
Check your Facebook profiles. It probably says you’re dead, too.
— Ashley Rae (@Communism_Kills) November 11, 2016
This has been a tough week @facebook, but in the words of a Monty Python character, “I├óΓé¼Γäóm not dead yet.” pic.twitter.com/ep9zkN1bJK
— Ariel Lauren Wilson (@ariellauren) November 11, 2016
Following a difficult #election season, Facebook has killed all of us. pic.twitter.com/jEkXsVgFWP
— Lisa Barone (@LisaBarone) November 11, 2016
I’m alive, promise. pic.twitter.com/5CM9fSCfko
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 11, 2016
[Image via Facebook.]
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