Facebook is telling everyone you are dead

If you go look at your Facebook right now, there is a high chance the social network is telling everyone you are dead.

The message reads: "We hope people who love [the deceased] will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate his/her life".

It includes a link to Facebook's request form for memorializing the account of someone who has passed.

The glitch even seems to have affected Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s profile.

Users across the globe are taking to Twitter to inform their social followers that they are in fact, not dead.

Typically when a Facebook user dies, a friend or family member puts in a request to memorialize their account.

But today, this is happening at random to users who are still alive.

The issue seems to be random. It’s not popping up on everyone’s profile, but it’s certainly happening on a lot of them.

It's unclear what's causing the mass obituaries, but it's likely a bug in the system.

Facebook say they are “aware" of the situation.