After several users received notifications from Facebook after giving the site their phone numbers for two-factor, the brand admitted there was a bug.<\/b>
\nAfter several people received non-security-related notifications from Facebook after giving the social network their phone numbers for two-factor authentication (2FA), the company admitted there was a bug and has promised to roll out a fix soon. People who responded to these notifications saw them appearing as status updates on their Facebook accounts for all to see.
\u201cIt was not our intention to send non-security-related SMS notifications to these phone numbers, and I am sorry for any inconvenience these messages might have caused,\u201d Alex Stamos, Facebook Chief Security Officer, said in a post late on Friday. People asked Facebook why their responses to these notifications appeared as status updates on the social media platform. \u201cFor years, before the ubiquity of smartphones, we supported posting to Facebook via text message, but this feature is less useful these days. As a result, we are working to deprecate this functionality soon,\u201d Stamos added. Facebook has promised to roll out a fix soon that will stop non-security-related notifications. \u201cWe are working to ensure that people who sign up for two-factor authentication won\u2019t receive non-security-related notifications from us unless they specifically choose to receive them. We expect to have the fixes in place in the coming days,\u201d the Facebook executive said. \u201cTo reiterate, this was not an intentional decision; this was a bug,\u201d he added. According to Engadget, until Facebook rolls out a fix, those affected by the bug can go to Settings and then to Notifications to switch off text notifications.
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