Did you go to Vidyartha College? There’s a good chance that you’ve never even heard of the college that’s based in Sri Lanka, however numerous Facebook users are reporting that their friends are being affiliated with the school. This isn’t the first time that Facebook has had a glitch like this. Previously, users have been accidentally affiliated with Harvard University even though they never set it.
While I’m sure plenty of people would have liked to attend the school, having a Facebook glitch say that you attended somewhere does not actually mean you went there unfortunately. We’re not sure how many users are reporting the issue, however we’re guessing thousands of people have been effected at a minimum. I’d also expect Facebook to resolve the issue in the next few hours.
While your profile data is not going to disappear as a result of the glitch, just knowing that it’s a glitch is useful information. I’ve reached out to Facebook about the issue, but my guess is that it will be resolved before I receive a response. Issues like this take place on Facebook once in a while, however I’ve never seen an instance of permanent data damage.
Are you seeing this strange “Vidyartha College” glitch from your friends’ profiles? So are your profiles at risk of anything? Not at all! So please enjoy your stay at Vidyartha College, Sri Lanka.
Update
A number of people that are members of our Facebook Page are showing up as being from “Vidyartha College”. Definitely a widespread glitch that could be affecting millions of users. My guess is that this will still be resolved soon.
Article image from the Vidyartha College website.
A Short Video of Vidyartha College
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Yes, all my friends are shown as attending Vidyartha College.
Myself included. I was wondering what it was,
Joanne
Comment by joanne shiller — September 29, 2009 @ 9:22 pm
It is on my profile too. Rather disturbing, because I know my friends quite well, and that they totally did NOT go there!
Comment by Barbara — September 29, 2009 @ 9:25 pm
lol thought ma a/c was hacked into … but it was a relief whn i saw same glitch wth ma frnds … Thnx for the post, mann ur fast
Comment by Jermy — September 29, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
Vidyartha College must have been the facebook hacker's alma mater.
Comment by Mike — September 29, 2009 @ 9:50 pm
I love the word 'glitch'; it is such a helpful all-encompassing term that avoids awkward words like….'hack'. Brighten up, chaps!
Comment by Lucie — September 29, 2009 @ 9:50 pm
I've got quite a few friends – who are completely not connected in any way, shape or form – have never even met each other – - and there are more than just a 'few' showing up as belonging to this Vidyartha College….I certainly hope this isn't going to compromise any of my "Friends" pages or the data I've got on my own….any one have any 'results' to share?!
Comment by pat — September 29, 2009 @ 9:58 pm
Ha! Me too! So far 22 of my friends go to Vidyartha College.
Comment by AJ — September 29, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
When I visit a friend's profile, Vidyartha isn't listed, but it shows up under their name when I message them. It happens for about half of my friends.
Comment by Kathy H — September 29, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
like over half my friends' profiles say the vidyarth college
Comment by Rachel — September 29, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
one facebook friend reported that he had received an honorary degree from this college. Could be part of the same process.
Comment by Rich Reader — September 29, 2009 @ 10:28 pm
THANK YOU FOR THE HONORARY DEGREE FROM YOUR COLLEGE.
Comment by Greg Gabaylo — September 29, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
I've also got the Vidyartha college "glitch" – coming up on lots of my friends in my friends list
Comment by Julia Lynch — September 29, 2009 @ 10:56 pm
Must be a virus or bug, a small minority, only about 5% of my friends have it – and of those 25 or so people, they seem to be groups of friends or family members who know each other. So it's not random, it must have something to do with friends, people you leave comments for or something like that. For example, 5 or so were part of the same crowd in high school and 10 or so are members of the same extended family. My guess is it spreads from other users you interact with a lot which would make sense
Comment by Yupp — September 29, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
Looks like dozens of Tarot School fans are listed as having attended Vidyartha College. I noticed it before seeing your post so thank you for clearing up the mystery!
Comment by Ruth Ann Amberstone — September 29, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
a lot of my new adds have Vidyartha College as their network – when i was trying to check it out (which brought me here), i had a serious attempt to force me to download something under the guise of a virus scanner… looked nasty… .
Comment by Leo Schulz — September 29, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
The best way of avoiding being targeted by advertisers on facebook is by using the firefox webbrowser and add the adblock plus application.
Comment by Bert Visscher — September 29, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
I wonder if you yourself have created this glich you are even advertising Vidyartha College in your article. You add a picture and a video about Vidyartha College in your article. How much did they pay you for it?
Comment by Bert Visscher — September 29, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
To remove it, you just need to post a network for yourself eg Country, School, or Workplace. That will replace this glitch. But don't ask me how to post the network – my teenage daughter set up my FB account!
Comment by Meg — September 30, 2009 @ 12:17 am
I’ve got the glitch on my facebook profile.
Comment by Melissa in Kansas — September 30, 2009 @ 1:13 am
i think that this Vidyartha College did for some self promotion. Now millions know about this once unknown college.
Comment by Jane — September 30, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
here I'm from Vidyartha College. recently we requested FB to add our college to their college list. during their proccess a error might have caused. anyway we hope this will be fixed soon.
Comment by vckmaths — September 30, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
the bug is gone.. thank God Vidyartha is gone…. yeahhH!
Comment by carlos solis — September 30, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
im from sri lankaaaa
Comment by Zafarali Ahmed — October 1, 2009 @ 4:00 am
I think it happened to all those who had not assigned a country/school/work network to their names. It's all fixed now, right? My friends' names appear without any networks again.
Comment by Meg — October 1, 2009 @ 6:16 am
How sweet of facebook to be getting so much attention to Sri Lanka. lol…
I can remember having so many glitches and weird profile date when the recent site maintenance by facebook was on going.
Comment by Facebook User — October 2, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
Correction that was meant to be profile data.
And, they included broken relationship statuses too. lol
Comment by Facebook User — October 2, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
ha ha ha ha proud to be a VIDYARTHIAN……
Comment by Die wel — October 3, 2009 @ 1:53 am
The glitch must have affected me too but now it kicked me out of my network and not only that, I can no longer get back into the network (it's a country network) because it doesn't show up! Try entering different cities or countries when you try to change networks, they don't show up! South Africa, Sweden, Boston, MA, New York, NY – all gone? They're only showing schools for most countries/cities.
Comment by Karen — October 5, 2009 @ 6:32 am