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Facebook Is Down

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Only IPv4 by XanC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe this only affected those of you stuck in the last millennium. http://v6.facebook.com

  2. Re:It's back now by mbone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It was NOT just DNS, as it happened even for IP addresses. There has been a lot of discussion of this over on NANOG - there were http 500 server errors and apparently also some indications of problems with their CDN.

    It's just a WA guess, but I bet some configuration change went wildly wrong.

  3. Re:Grow up. by Score+Whore · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I get the feeling that there are some people who feel that posting on facebook is the same as maintaining a relationship. And if I was one of those people whose only contact with someone was via facebook updates, I'd not consider the relationship that important.

  4. Re:Grow up. by kiwimate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How is email any different than sending a message on Facebook?
    Hint: it isn't at all.

    E-mail accounts frequently change. Facebook accounts remain constant.

    I can very easily search for my cousin by name on Facebook. How do I easily find out her e-mail address if I haven't seen her for a few years?

    Multiply by 50 or 100 family and friends - Facebook is far more convenient.