{"id":708,"date":"2016-01-01T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/facebook-mistakenly-congratulated-all-these-people-on-46-years-of-friendship\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:22:42","slug":"facebook-mistakenly-congratulated-all-these-people-on-46-years-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/facebook-mistakenly-congratulated-all-these-people-on-46-years-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook mistakenly congratulated all these people on 46 years of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook-bug\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzEyLzMxLzQ4L0ZhY2Vib29rYnVnLjIzZjAxLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/92a872ad\/43c\/Facebook-bug.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Facebook+mistakenly+congratulated+all+these+people+on+46+years+of+friendship&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2015%2F12%2F31%2Ffacebook-46-years-friendship%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2015%2F12%2F31%2Ffacebook-46-years-friendship%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Something odd is happening on Facebook. The social network is congratulating users on 46 years of friendship with other users, which wouldn&#8217;t be that strange if some of those people weren&#8217;t a lot younger than 46<\/p>\n<p>The message, as seen and reported by users on Facebook and Twitter, looks exactly like a standard &#8220;Facebook friendship&#8221; message \u2014 except it claims the two users had been friends for 46 years. It also appears the glitch always reports exactly the same number \u2014 46 \u2014 prompting users to speculate why this happens, with answers ranging from someone at Facebook being drunk to a Unix bug.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/12\/facebook-360-videos-iphone\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook brings 360-degree videos to iPhone and Gear VR<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/31\/facebook-46-years-friendship\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/46\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">46<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/qZqhJ2zeSK0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something odd is happening on Facebook. The social network is congratulating users on 46 years of friendship with other users, which wouldn&#8217;t be that strange if some of those people weren&#8217;t a lot younger than 46 The message, as seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/facebook-mistakenly-congratulated-all-these-people-on-46-years-of-friendship\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,73,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74","category-facebook","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}