Many Facebook users recently expressed their confusion over a new bug that brought up years-old Messenger messages as new, unread ones.
Users have recently been seen complaining about their years old messages resurfacing automatically as new and unread ones on Facebook Messenger. Facebook later acknowledged the issue and was quick enough to take immediate action and solve it.
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“Earlier today, some people may have experienced Facebook re-sending older messages. The issue, caused by software updates, has been fully resolved. We’re sorry for any inconvenience,” a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable.
Unless the user has deleted the message history between them and another user, Messenger retains the years back old messages and pops them up before the user all again. However, not everyone was affected by the bug. Nonetheless, users took to Twitter to express their concerns.
Thank you @facebook for sending me notifications of messages sent over a year old. Many were from the day my partner, Dean, passed away & now I've spent my evening in fear of what else I'm going to see.
— Adam (@adamadzp) November 26, 2018
I am not sure what is happening with Facebook and old messages popping up as new ones, but it gets really ridiculous being confronted with some of the chats from couple of years ago.
— Ilija Jerkovi? (@ilijajerkovic) November 26, 2018
Old Facebook messages popping up from years ago. Temporary security scare turned cringefest.
— Leslie Waghorn (@lawaghorn) November 26, 2018
Hacked or ghosts?
— Max LaFave (@MaxLaFave) November 26, 2018
What’s with Facebook messenger bringing up old messages from years ago with the notification and everything? Or is that just me?! #Facebook #messenger
— Michelle Cooling (@Shell_Cooling3) November 27, 2018