Facebook in the case of being too smart?

Recently we received feedback from our readers that the messages that we sent out from Facebook Groups has broken links.  So we decided to investigate this issue.

The Feedback:
We had a feedback from our readers that the message (like the  one below) that we sent out from Facebook group has broken links.  Looking at the attached screen shot, it can be easily identified that the highlighted URL is wrong and will never work in any browser.

The Issue:
The embedded link in the email sent via Facebook groups had and extra: “http://www.facebook.com/l/;”.  I am sure when Facebook implemented this, they thought that this is an intuitive feature. However it results in the “dead link” as shown.

The Rescue:
Now inorder to resolve this issue, remember to remove/exclude the “http://” when embedding a URL.

I really think that Facebook mechanism is in the case of being too smart. Anyone of you encountered this issue before?