“It was not immediately clear whether the other, similarly persistent, notifications were part of the same problem”, Brogan wrote. One way of doing this is to disable calendar notifications. For this reason I decided to just turn the birthday notifications off. Seeing them in the calendar app will be enough for me.
I don't want to edit all contacts that I do or don't want to be notified about. While many assumed the change was deliberate, or perhaps a form of user experience testing, as with so many of the site’s undocumented alterations, it was apparently a freak accident.įacebook confirmed to Slate’s Jacob Brogan that the bug, which has now been fixed, resulted in users who had never signed up to email notifications for birthdays still incorrectly being sent the missives. Especially not for every contact that has a birthday. Typically, Facebook only sends one notification per birthday to users, and only sends emails to those who have chosen (either actively or passively) to receive them.īut over the past month, some users have reported a massive increase in notifications from the website, giving multiple prods over multiple media to wish friends a happy birthday. If you’ve been submerged under a deluge of reminders for friends’ birthdays on Facebook, you’re not alone: the social network has confirmed that a bug in its notification system meant that it sent out many many more push notifications, emails and the like than it should have.
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