That’s why the Facebook group wants to apologize to you

“Inconvenient” and “embarrassing”: Facebook users have been annoyed by a bug on the social media platform in recent days. When calling up another user profile, Facebook automatically sent a friend request to the person in questionas the American medium “The Daily Beast” reports.

In an interview with the magazine, Facebook has now asked for forgiveness, it is said. “We have discontinued this and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused,” the paper quoted a Meta spokesperson as saying. The bug started with a recent update to the Facebook app and has since been fixed.

However, the damage in some patients cannot be reversed, writes The Daily Beast. Numerous users of the network have complained about the massive breach of privacy on social media and have deactivated their accounts there.

Also under economic pressure

The bug comes at a bad time for Meta. The company has laid off several thousand employees in recent months. A glitch with Facebook ads last month also caused advertisers to overpay. The ads were temporarily stopped.

Nevertheless, Meta managed to stop the months-long drop in turnover in the first quarter. Revenue exceeded expectations at $28.6 billion, the company announced in April. Meanwhile, earnings fell 24 percent to $5.7 billion.

The number of daily active Facebook users reached 2.04 billion, up from 2 billion three months earlier. 3.02 billion users access at least one of the group’s apps every day. There were still 2.96 billion users at the end of 2022. Meta also includes Instagram and the chat services WhatsApp and Messenger.

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(t-online/dsc)