Facebook Is Down

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Posted by timothy on Thursday September 23, 2010 @09:26AM from the is-life-without-scrabble-life-at-all? dept.

Phil_at_EvilNET writes "Jeff Bertolucci of PC World reports: 'Thousands of Facebook users this afternoon (US Pacific Time) are reporting that the popular social networking site is down. It's unclear when the outage began. PCWorld has not been able to reach Facebook for comment, but Mashable reports the company has confirmed the outage.'"

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Facebook Is Down by gstoddart · 2010-09-23 09:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

And nothing of value was lost. :-P

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1. Re: Facebook Is Down by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-23 09:28 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yes. I genuinely find it a useful tool for keeping up with people and arranging events.
2. Re: Facebook Is Down by newviewmedia.com · 2010-09-23 09:31 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  In other news worker productivity shot up by 150%
  
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3. Re: Facebook Is Down by jareth-0205 · 2010-09-23 10:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Agree with you 100%. Good to know I was not and will not affected in any way. Does anything serious get done on Facebook?
  Wow, what a phenomenally smug statement. Why does everything have to have a "serious" use? Social tools are useful and valid things, and 500 million users think so. Or are you more enlightened than every one of them?
4. Re: Facebook Is Down by JorDan+Clock · 2010-09-23 10:08 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Right. Because it's so much easier to call everyone you want to invite to a large event and then make a note of everyone who is going to show.
  
  Seriously, your phone isn't better and you're just trying to act like you're superior for not using Facebook. It has its uses, which are very numerous, and a lot of people don't use it just for Farmville.
5. Re: Facebook Is Down by bogaboga · 2010-09-23 10:10 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Social tools are useful and valid things, and 500 million users think so. Or are you more enlightened than every one of them?
  Donno! That's why I asked. And trust me...if there is something useful that cannot be done [better] any other way, I will join. I haven't found anything so far, so enlighten me.
6. Re: Facebook Is Down by D'Sphitz · 2010-09-23 10:23 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Didn't you get the memo, it's like super cool to hate popular things?
7. Re: Facebook Is Down by Mister+Whirly · 2010-09-23 10:26 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Does anything serious get done on Facebook?
  About as much serious stuff that gets done on Slashdot.
  
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8. Re: Facebook Is Down by MightyYar · 2010-09-23 10:46 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  My phone works better and I don't have to wait for a response most of the time.
  A phone is great for calling/texting other people who you are in active contact with.
  For finding out what happened to all those kids in your eighth grade class photo? Not so much.
  I simply posted a class photo on Facebook. Within a few days, everyone save one person was "tagged" on the photo and accounted for. Whether you personally value that kind of information has no bearing on just how cool that is from a geek perspective. That kind of information would have taken me weeks 10 years ago, and everyone would think that I was crazy.
  
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9. Re: Facebook Is Down by Evil.Bonsai · 2010-09-23 10:49 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I'm sure productivity went DOWN, since everyone kept trying to refresh/reload..."Maybe THIS time it will work?!"
10. Re: Facebook Is Down by internettoughguy · 2010-09-23 11:22 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  My phone works better and I don't have to wait for a response most of the time.
  A phone is great for calling/texting other people who you are in active contact with.
  For finding out what happened to all those kids in your eighth grade class photo? Not so much.
  I simply posted a class photo on Facebook. Within a few days, everyone save one person was "tagged" on the photo and accounted for. Whether you personally value that kind of information has no bearing on just how cool that is from a geek perspective. That kind of information would have taken me weeks 10 years ago, and everyone would think that I was crazy.
  The reason why you like social networking sites is precisely the reason why I dislike them, in that behaviour that was once rightfully considered crazy/creepy is now mainstream.
11. Re: Facebook Is Down by WillKemp · 2010-09-23 11:26 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  And you're better than them because you do your ego wanking on slashdot, rather than facebook?
Staring at the clock! by Kepesk · 2010-09-23 09:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

I can't believe this... Facebook went down so I started working and then I actually finished and now I can't figure out what to do!

Okay, I'm not quite that bad, but we all know people who are...

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Re:I'm back in. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-23 09:40 · Score: 5, Insightful

Because advertisers cannot match up what I write here with who I am.
I see facebook as basically giving all your personal information to advertisers.
Now if I didn't want to be anon, perhaps I would be more interested in Facebook, but I'm not.
real news story: by pyrocam · 2010-09-23 10:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

"facebook is down" makes top news at nerd related news website
Re:Why is this news? by am+2k · 2010-09-23 10:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

Since a few months ago, Facebook has surpassed Google as the website with the most traffic on the web. If #2 Google.com went down, it'd be here as well, so why not #1?
Re:Grow up. by RocketRabbit · 2010-09-23 11:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

What, her Twitter stream isn't enough? How about her email list?
Relying on Facebook for everything is just stupid, and this should be a lesson to your pregnant friend.