Today while reading my news feed in Facebook, I came across a posting that said:

To all of my friends: COPY & PASTE: New problem found…. Hacker in door in our friends list!….We are now listed as friends of ourselves! You need to delete yourself from your friends list to close the door to hackers. To do this … Go to Account, go to edit friends, there search for your name on the list and click the X to get your name removed.

Sometimes you wonder, are these listings from people in your friends lists accurate and worth even getting scared about. To the average user, this will make them panic whether it be due to a bad experience they had in the past or stories that have heard or read on the internet.

Well this happens to be just that, a story you heard on facebook that just is not true. It appears to be a facebook bug or programming thing that is related to their own systems.

Just another hoax to get everyone stirred up.

Some other sites stating the same thing.

http://www.facebookapplicationdevelopment.org/news/alert-there-is-not-a-hacker-door-in-your-facebook-friends-list/

http://www.thatsnonsense.com/index.php?location=view&id=830