Facebook Hoax? “Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience”

The following represents an email that arrived in my inbox today:

To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com
From: Facebook <xxxx+xxxxxxx@facebookmail.com>
Subject: Please reset your email notification settings.

Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

To reset your email notification settings, go to:

http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

At first I thought this must be a hoax. Shockingly, after logging into my Facebook account, OMG, right there at the top of my home page was:

Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We're sorry for the inconvenience

Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We

It appears to be for real! How in the World could this have happened?

They hadn’t lost my email address, obviously, because they sent me an email to inform me of their error. What caused them to lose the settings on *which* emails to send?

Did you get the same email? If so, sign in to FB, Go to your SETTINGS in your FB acct. then choose NOTIFICATIONS and choose whichever buttons you want and SAVE.

A note to my young multi-millionaire buddys at Facebook: Grow up!

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