{"id":30243,"date":"2016-11-12T03:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T03:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mark-zuckerberg-among-facebook-users-mistakenly\/"},"modified":"2016-11-12T03:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T03:01:06","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-among-facebook-users-mistakenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mark-zuckerberg-among-facebook-users-mistakenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg among Facebook users mistakenly declared ‘dead’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Facebook accidentally declared its founder Mark Zuckerberg and many other users dead on Friday, acknowledging after fixing the problem that it had committed a “terrible error.”}<\/p>\n

“For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” a Facebook spokesperson told AFP.<\/p>\n

“This was a terrible error that we have now fixed.”<\/p>\n

Media reports indicated that some two million errant memorials were posted on profile pages.<\/p>\n

Even Facebook co-founder and chief executive Zuckerberg was memorialized in a message at his profile page expressing hope that people who loved him would take comfort in posts people shared in tribute to his life.<\/p>\n

“Poor Mark,” read an @JudiD23 tweet that included weeping face emojis.<\/p>\n

“Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”<\/p>\n

The social network apologized and said it worked as quickly as possible to correct the problem.<\/p>\n

“Damn. I should have used Facebook Live to show how I was Facebook Dead,” Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan said in a message fired off at Twitter.<\/p>\n

Facebook Live feature lets people broadcast video in real-time at the leading social network.<\/p>\n

The mistaken memorial notices contained links to forms that can be submitted to have people’s accounts at the leading social network modified into online memorials after they die.<\/p>\n

Part of the process is showing proof of death.<\/p>\n

Some wondered whether the mishap was a botched test promotion of the feature, rather than a software glitch.<\/p>\n

{{#FACEBOOKDEAD}}<\/p>\n

Comments tagged #FacebookDead or #FacebookRapture went viral at Twitter, with people joking that the scenario marked a fitting end to tumultuous week.<\/p>\n

“I think this is Facebook’s way of flagging the people who died inside on Tuesday,” read a tweet from @billkalpak.<\/p>\n

A darkly humorous post on Twitter by @JnPhillip was in the form of a note reading “Dear Facebook, Donald Trump does not get inaugurated until January 20th. Nuclear annihilation occurs Jan. 21st.”<\/p>\n

“Naturally, Facebook waited until 2016 to kill us all,” tweeted @kriheli.<\/p>\n

Some quipped that the mistake shook confidence in Facebook’s feature for checking on people after disasters, or its claim that hoax stories are not a worry at the social network.<\/p>\n

A not-dead-yet Zuckerberg defended the integrity of News Feed stories doing an on-stage chat at a Techonomy conference in California the night before being memorialized on his profile page.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg rejected the idea that bogus stories shared at the social network paved a path of victory for President-elect Trump.<\/p>\n

“The idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way I think is a pretty crazy idea,” Zuckerberg said during an on-stage chat at the conference.<\/p>\n

The News Feed at Facebook has evolved from early days of being about sharing personal tidbits with friends or family to becoming a platform for important news.<\/p>\n

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