Users left guessing as Facebook 'celebrates 46 years of friendship'

January 01, 2016 02:44

A technical glitch in Facebook systems surprised users as the social network sent automated messages inviting them to celebrate '46 years of friendship on Facebook' with one or more of their online friends.

That was really odd as many of the Facebook users are in their 20s and 30s and the social networking site itself started in 2004.

Facebook blamed a software bug for the glitch, while computer experts speculate that the problem must have caused by a quirk in Unix, an operating system used in big data centers where companies like Facebook store information.

The glitch starts the internal calendar on some computers at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, January 1, 1970.

Facebook said its engineers are fixing the problem 'so everyone can ring in 2016 feeling young again.'

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