Facebook is telling everyone that they’re dead

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/11/13602824/facebook-just-killed-everyone

by yanowitz • 10 years ago

45 21 10 years ago

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ocdtrekkie• 10 years ago

"Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment, likely because everyone there is dead."

I love a good line like this at the end of a blog, it just kills me.

krylon• 10 years ago

Hehe, that line is priceless.

It seems truth is indeed stranger than fiction sometimes.

return02• 10 years ago

  if ($displayName == "Leonard Cohen"); 
  {
     $isDead = true;
  }

mordocai• 10 years ago

if ($TRUMP_WON) { $isDead = true; }

Was my thought.

wmblaettler• 10 years ago

Move fast and ... break things?

monksy• 10 years ago

We're agile.

sharemywin• 10 years ago

I know a lot of people are down about trump winning but I don't think it will be that bad.

gdulli• 10 years ago

I thought we'd be safe at least until January.

BinaryIdiot• 10 years ago

I'm kinda disappointed I don't see this working for my profile or any of my friends. I wanted a screenshot or 20 :(

concerto• 10 years ago

Maybe Facebook knows something we don't...

edoceo• 10 years ago

dead inside. #fify

return02• 10 years ago

Death by facebook

DonaldFisk• 10 years ago

WTF! I'm put in stasis for 18 months and now my computer tells me everybody's dead.

lazzlazzlazz• 10 years ago

Something tells me this actually isn't very widespread and is just another case of The Verge dredging the bottoms for clickbait.

MatthaeusHarris• 10 years ago

Perhaps. But it happened to both my account and my sister's account.

joecot• 10 years ago

It appeared to be a short term bug. Everyone on my feed was seeing it, and I saw it on every friend I checked. But 10 minutes later it was done.

I'm sure some engineer frantically watched a "roll back" continuous integration process run for several minutes, while his coworkers played the GoT "Shame!" video over and over and threw things at him.

slackoverflower• 10 years ago

Talk about Facebook Live. Now Facebook Dead. Product innovation at FB is crazy good

tpowell• 10 years ago

"He died how he lived—on Facebook."

rebel• 10 years ago

Saw this a little bit before it was reported. Thought it was some bizarre Veteran's Day memorial.

runamok• 10 years ago

I disabled my account yesterday because I've come to the conclusion nothing on facebook adds value to my life and I'd rather not hand a treasure trove of data to our forthcoming glorious leader so I am going to miss this bug... :-/

Jemaclus• 10 years ago

Can confirm this is happening. Two of my friends that are actively commenting on FB are marked as dead. Weird.

Facebook is telling everyone that they’re dead

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