{"id":1096,"date":"2016-11-16T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T03:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2016-11-13T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T04:01:42","slug":"facebook-bug-kills-users-in-terrible-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/facebook-bug-kills-users-in-terrible-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bug &#8216;kills&#8217; users in &#8216;terrible error&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37957593\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/92408650_cxantnjxaaib7eq-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>An unusual bug on Facebook showed many users of the social network as dead on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The error on Friday caused the social network to show a memorial banner on user profiles for people who were still alive.<\/p>\n<p>Users posted status updates to reassure friends and family they were not dead, despite Facebook&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a terrible error that we have now fixed,&#8221; a Facebook spokesperson said. &#8220;We are very sorry that this happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message, intended for &#8220;memorialised profiles&#8221;, erroneously appeared on the profile pages of a large number of users &#8211; including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope people who love Mark will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate his life,&#8221; the banner on his page read.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37957593\">Facebook bug &#8216;kills&#8217; users in &#8216;terrible error&#8217; &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual bug on Facebook showed many users of the social network as dead on Friday. The error on Friday caused the social network to show a memorial banner on user profiles for people who were still alive. Users posted status updates to reassure friends and family they were not dead, despite Facebook&#8217;s message. &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[161,38],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-facebook-bug","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}