Last Friday, Facebook customers found a bug that shattered their illusions of privateness—on the cellular app, buddy requests had been being despatched to any profile visited. For folks engaged within the timeless behavior of trying up different folks on the sly, as Facebook usually doesn’t share who has seen a person profile, their shopping habits had been all of a sudden (and in some instances, mortifyingly) revealed.

As reported by The Daily Beast, the glitch reared its head everytime you seen the profile of somebody you weren’t buddies with but. Users shared their discovery on social media, with some people testing (and recording) the bug in motion.

While this bug put a short lived chill on Facebook stalking, a spokesperson for Meta (Facebook’s dad or mum firm) apologized for the difficulty in an announcement to The Daily Beast and confirmed it had been mounted. Users reported in subsequent social media posts that undesirable buddy requests have since disappeared.

If you’re involved you should still have lingering despatched buddy requests, you’ll be able to examine your pending requests by heading to https://www.facebook.com/friends. Select Friend Requests within the left navigation bar, then click on on “View sent friend requests” to see your unanswered buddy requests. You can delete any that you just didn’t imply to (or don’t recall) sending by clicking on the Cancel request button subsequent to the particular person’s title.

For any requests you discover that you just don’t recall sending (a lot much less visiting the profile of that particular person), they could have been unintentionally despatched via Facebook’s “People You May Know” module. It seems periodically in your feed as you scroll, and generally you might not be conscious whenever you’ve clicked or tapped on one among its Add buddy buttons. On desktop, you’ll be able to cover this characteristic by putting in Social Fixer, a browser extension accessible for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Opera that allows you to tweak Facebook’s interface. Once it’s energetic, open its settings to activate the Hide People You May Know filter—and breathe just a little simpler after.