Why Facebook Thinks You Have Been Friends With Some People For 46 Years

  • 8 years ago
On December 31st, many Facebook users were informed they’ve been social media site friends with one person or another for 46 years. Here’s the probable reason why.

On December 31st, many Facebook users were informed they’ve been friends on the networking site with one or more uses for 46 years.
Clearly, that can’t be true for a number of reasons, including that neither Facebook nor the web was around in 1969. 
In some regions of the world, the Unix epoch was in existence on the last day of that year. 
The Unix operating system, which is used by Apple's MAC OS X and installed on servers worldwide, began

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