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Many living Facebook users were "memorialized" Friday afternoon987 Archives meaning the social network claimed they were dead.

You just can't make this stuff up.

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It's unclear why this happened, but the issue affected a variety of users — including the author of this post:

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"We hope people who love Damon will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate his life," a new header said at the top of my profile page, and several others that I checked.

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While it appears the glitch only went live for a short period of time, that didn't stop Twitter from having a grand old time with the memorials.

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Maybe it's not a bug and this explains what happened this week and we're in hell. https://t.co/MbVYylVuWZ

— Emily Peck (@EmilyRPeck) November 11, 2016

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In a statement to Mashable, a Facebook spokesperson said "this was a terrible error that we have now fixed," though no specific details were offered about the glitch.

“For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts," the statement said. "This was a terrible error that we have now fixed. We are very sorry that this happened and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it.”

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