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Facebook is telling everyone that they’re dead

45 points by yanowitz 10y ago

Jemaclus 10y ago
Can confirm this is happening. Two of my friends that are actively commenting on FB are marked as dead. Weird.
ocdtrekkie 10y 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 10y ago
  Hehe, that line is priceless. It seems truth is indeed stranger than fiction sometimes.
return0 10y ago
if ($displayName == "Leonard Cohen"); { $isDead = true; }
- mordocai 10y ago
  if ($TRUMP_WON) { $isDead = true; } Was my thought.
wmblaettler 10y ago
Move fast and ... break things?
- monksy 10y ago
  We're agile.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
sharemywin 10y ago
I know a lot of people are down about trump winning but I don't think it will be that bad.
gdulli 10y ago
I thought we'd be safe at least until January.
BinaryIdiot 10y 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 10y ago
Maybe Facebook knows something we don't...
edoceo 10y ago
dead inside. #fify
- return0 10y ago
  Death by facebook
DonaldFisk 10y ago
WTF! I'm put in stasis for 18 months and now my computer tells me everybody's dead.
lazzlazzlazz 10y ago
Something tells me this actually isn't very widespread and is just another case of The Verge dredging the bottoms for clickbait.
- joecot 10y 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.
- MatthaeusHarris 10y ago
  Perhaps. But it happened to both my account and my sister's account.
slackoverflower 10y ago
Talk about Facebook Live. Now Facebook Dead. Product innovation at FB is crazy good
tpowell 10y ago
"He died how he lived—on Facebook."
rebel 10y ago
Saw this a little bit before it was reported. Thought it was some bizarre Veteran's Day memorial.
runamok 10y 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... :-/

45 points by yanowitz 10y ago

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

"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 10y ago
Hehe, that line is priceless. It seems truth is indeed stranger than fiction sometimes.

return0 10y ago

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

mordocai 10y ago
if ($TRUMP_WON) { $isDead = true; } Was my thought.

wmblaettler 10y ago

Move fast and ... break things?

monksy 10y ago
We're agile.
deleted 10y ago
[deleted]

sharemywin 10y ago

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

gdulli 10y ago

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

BinaryIdiot 10y 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 10y ago

Maybe Facebook knows something we don't...

edoceo 10y ago

dead inside. #fify

return0 10y ago
Death by facebook

DonaldFisk 10y ago

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

lazzlazzlazz 10y ago

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

joecot 10y 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.
MatthaeusHarris 10y ago
Perhaps. But it happened to both my account and my sister's account.

slackoverflower 10y ago

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

tpowell 10y ago

"He died how he lived—on Facebook."

rebel 10y ago

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

runamok 10y 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... :-/