But it seemed to be on whoever was viewing the page, and not individual accounts -- a few of us didn't see any issues when scrolling through the social network's pages. We've reached out to Facebook for more information and will update this post should it arrive.

Update: Now that things have calmed down, a Facebook spokesperson has provided Engadget the following statement: "For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts. 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."