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Published 10:09 14 Oct 2015 BST
Updated 10:49 14 Oct 2015 BST

According to various sources, if you typed 'everyone will know' onto someone else's Facebook wall, you were instantly blocked from the site.
A company spokesperson told the Huffington Post that it was “a mistake with our spam filter” which has since been repaired. Meanwhile other theorists have suggested this Reddit user, who goes by the name of "System_Requirements”, had malicious intentions with his original post.
Some people argue that by posting this apparent glitch, their intent was to cause a mass spam attack on the algorithm the company uses to measure against unexpected spikes in the frequency of words, thus causing the intent of spam to transform into actual spam.
Regardless of the reason, it caused plenty of mystery and debate among tech-heads. Our money is on those Gremlins in the system, it's always Gremlins.

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