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No, you weren’t seeing things Facebook momentarily thought everyone was dead
Maybe Facebook knows something the general public doesn’t, and let slip that we’re actually all living in heaven, hell, or some strange happy medium
On Friday afternoon, Facebook users reacted in horror when a Facebook glitch made thousands of Facebook profiles listed as memorial pages.
A memorial page is set up after a Facebook user dies so that people can remember the user after their passing.
Doug Barclay Facebook
At 3:30 p.m. EST, thousands of users looked like they were dead on Facebook, including founder Mark Zuckeberg and this very much alive author.
Facebook
Within seconds of the error popping up, users took to Twitter, another social medium to declare that they weren’t dead.
