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Facebook fixes glitch that turned profiles into memorial pages

Published: 12 Nov 2016 - 08:46 am | Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 - 07:43 am
People pass by the stand of Facebook during the Web Summit at Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon on November 9, 2016. AFP / PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA

People pass by the stand of Facebook during the Web Summit at Parque das Nacoes, in Lisbon on November 9, 2016. AFP / PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA

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Facebook Inc said on Friday a glitch that changed profiles of several users, including that of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, to memorial pages had been resolved.

A message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts, a company representative said in an emailed statement.

"We hope people who love [ name ] will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate [ his/her ] life," appeared at the top of user profiles, Gizmodo reported. 

People took to Twitter to ridicule the glitch. 

"Facebook thinks I'm dead I guess? That's awkward," Jason Evagelho tweeted.