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Facebook Is Down
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.'"
And nothing of value was lost. :-P
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
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...
Help me fix my brother's injured butt!
There was a can't resolve DNS error, but it's fixed now.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
My plans for world domination are coming to fruition.
I see a lot of people slamming facebook and social web sites.
They usually do it on some website, while being social.
What makes their comments better than ones on facebook.
And so we see the second (or third) salvo in the great 21st century Sino-American conflict. China has embargoed our proxy off their shore, we have likely responded in a manner as yet unknown.
But really China? Really? You have to go straight for the jugular and take down Facebook? There will be mass hysteria, cats and dogs will dance the lambada, and blood will rain from the sky now that you've taken down our new national pastime, Facebook.
/adjusts tinfoil hat to a rakish tilt
But really, wouldn't that be a good way for China to demonstrate how easily they can mess with us?
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
For the first time ever... mentioning a site was down on ./ made it come back to life.
It was me, i tripped over the servers cord on my way to the bathroom, ive plugged it back in and pressed the button on the front, hope its ok !!
mom
I believe this only affected those of you stuck in the last millennium. http://v6.facebook.com
http://twitter.com/m_ahmadinejad/status/24007026734
(j/k of course)
my downloads for pr0.... the internets were so fast today.
As soon as the news story broke that Zuckerberg was richer than Jobs, Apple launched EMP weapons at the Facebook datacenters.
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Well, for one thing it's a mistake by a big technology company, one that we generally like to hate. That's either interesting (because they try very hard to prevent such things with redundancy), or funny (because we don't like them). That makes it post-worthy.
But even if you don't use FB, you were probably effected. Those little FB Like buttons have been spreading around like a contagious pox, but they're built on iframes and javascript. That meant that when FB went down, all the sites with those dynamic little buttons had a page element that basically had to time out to finish rendering. If you put the button at the top of your page, your other javascript may not run until the FB JS either ran or timed out.
Net effect? FB going down slowed down a lot of other sites.
Introducing external dependencies you don't control on top of your business critical process can work out so well for people. I'm sure this kind of thing was considered by everyone during the recent "Let's add a like button" craze.
Don't forget sites where many of their users only login through Facebook Connect. That entire chunk of their user population may have been cut off during the outage.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
PALO ALTO, CA -- Millions of Internet users simultaneously threw up their hands in frustration and disgust Thursday afternoon as Facebook.com, a popular website providing distractions from productivity, inter-personal communication services, and a next-generation forum for thousands of misplaced USENET trolls, blinked off the Interwebs in a bright display of sparks and an anti-orgasmic groan.
Calls to Facebook headquarters were not answered but when the machine picked up, background noises included explosions, people screaming, and a burly man shouting DOS commands in a fierce staccato.
Authorities were put on alert status and reinforcements were called in to deal with the huge amount of LOLs and WTFs that had begun to pile up at intersections, due to the timing corresponding with the release of teenagers from school and their subsequent activities. Counselors were bracing themselves to deal with the myriad of relationships that have been thrust violently into limbo as users have been unable to hook up, break up, get married, or get "into a relationship" with their BFF.
Evan Williams, CEO of the popular sister-site Twitter, said in a statement that they were jumping in to help. "We've brought more servers online to deal with the influx of users who need to update their status, complain about a political party, or notify classmates that they are, 'skanky hors'." Williams also noted that they were partnering with TwitPic and other add-on services to ensure that the steady stream of photos of asses, children doing stupid things, and people drinking in semicircles would be preserved.
Ag secretary Vilsack presented a sober speech Thursday afternoon, lamenting the millions of dollars in crop and animal losses expected from the downtime of Facebook. "We know a lot of virtual farmers out there are hurting, " he stated. "You should know -- we will be here to help you rebuild."
Meanwhile, during the downtime, researchers discovered a rather large blue space available outside of their houses and middle age housewives were said to be seen in states of ecstasy from a natural phenomenon known as, "sunshine".
Blog,Twitter
"facebook is down" makes top news at nerd related news website
Nuts, it only works as http://www.v6.facebook.com/. Thanks to webmistressrachel for the correction.
Nothing of value was lost to you maybe. But I've got a news flash, the world doesn't revolve around you.
I've got a friend nearing the end of a difficult pregnancy and who is approaching labor, and Facebook is her husband's primary way of keeping friends and family updated as to her condition. That may not be important to you, but to a bunch of people scattered all across the world - it's important as hell. We care about our friends and family and staying in touch with them, in good times and bad.
You may thing you're k3wl and l33t for going with the Slashdot groupthink as to the value of Facebook, but in reality you're self centered and shallow jackass.
[Sigh, I know this is going to get modded 'flamebait' and 'troll', but it had to be said.]
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?
Email is much less reliable than FB messages. You can never be sure your email won't disappear in some spam filter.
That is one of the main reasons I use FB!
There isn't an option to dislike
Whenever the email server crashes at the office, I notice people milling around and talking. You could actually call it "being social". As soon as they all know the server is up, it gets quiet as they return to their email drudgery.
The Facebook outage has shown the opposite effect. Today was remarkably productive.
Maybe there could be a combination of the two. We could call it Facemail.
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.