FACEBOOK has started to congratulate users on 46 years of friendship, which is strange because the people who are receiving the message are A LOT younger than 46.
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| Facebook's servers tripped up during the transition into 2016 |
Facebook is experiencing a baffling glitch.
The hugely successful social network is congratulating users on 46 years of friendship.
Users, many younger than 46-years-old, flagged the strange glitch on Facebook and Twitter.
The message looks like any standard "Friends on Facebook" post, except it incorrectly claims the two tagged friends have known one another for 46 years.
We feared the Y2K bug, but we were 16 years too early.
"46 years of friendship on Facebook"
😱 pic.twitter.com/zRobqtNgYj
— Ashley Mayer (@ashleymayer) December 31, 2015We feared the Y2K bug, but we were 16 years too early.
"46 years of friendship on Facebook"
😱 pic.twitter.com/zRobqtNgYj
— Ashley Mayer (@ashleymayer) December 31, 2015
This is especially bizarre given that Facebook itself has only been operating in the UK for ten years.
A glitch inside Facebook means the "Friends on Facebook" posts always reports the same number.
A spokesperson for Facebook has confirmed: "We've identified this bug and the team's fixing it now so everyone can ring in 2016 feeling young again."
The reason for the bug is unknown, but one possible explanation is that the error could originate from a Unix glitch in Facebook's servers.
In a nutshell, it relates to how computers keep time, measuring how many seconds have elapsed since January 1st 1970 – which was 46 years ago today.
The minor bug is not unlike the Y2K bug that people were convinced would crash computer systems across the globe a decade and a half ago.
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