Facebook on the blink for second time in two days Update (3:56pm Pacific): Facebook has apparently solved the problem that was preventing access to its site. The site appears to be operating normally. Facebook has acknowledged that at least some users had difficulty accessing its site on Thursday afternoon, a day after the site experienced similar but unrelated problems. "We …
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... because the quote assumes that the people mentioned have nothing better to do than post loads of pics, statuses etc to Facebook, which in turns asks people if they like anything and everything - i.e.:
"xxx is now in a relationship. LIKE?"
"xxx is getting ready for a night out. LIKE?"
"Here's a photo of xxx with new partner on a night out. LIKE?"
But as Facebook was down, the only way said people can get other people to like their photos, statuses etc is by going out in the street shoving them in their faces and asking them "LIKE?"
It's not really that funny, but I get it.
Example:
"23rd September 2010 you may have noticed that facebook servers have crashed and that you cannot sign in or on, this is because a group of hackers have hacked the main system, the facebook team are trying to save what they can, it is advised if facebook does come up and running again you ...change your password immediately. Thanks BBC... news team try get the msg round as quick as possible, thats why"
I thought the whole point of the internet was that if some of the network failed then traffic could find other routes to go around the failed bits. Looks like someone failed to think about redundancy, and this failure resulted in a failure to cope with the failure.
FAIL icon because I've already used the f word so many times, one more can't hurt.
"The statement arrived after The Reg received multiple complaints about the site"
Which saddos emailed The Reg to complain about Facebook responsiveness?
Thats like me ringing the gas board cuase my telephone doesnt work!
Some people just need a good ole smack round the cheeks.
"The statement arrived after The Reg received multiple complaints about the site"
What that means is the statement has arrived following a lengthy tirade against the website from many of The Register's readers for a number of years, many stating such facts as "Facebook is sh1t", "Facebook is for people who can't make proper friends", and the most vociferous "Get a life you moronic cnuts"
Anon, cos I've actually got a profile on there. In my defence, I haven't accessed it for the best part of, oh, about a week… :P
One of my brief forays in to the Real World(tm) from Faceache and I missed it all.
Worst of all must have been the panic by Face-addicts who were despartate to tell the world via Facebook that it was down but couldn't get on to Facebook to do it.
Was there no increase of reports of sponaneous combustion as the circles they were running in got smaller and faster?
I wonder how the faceache network will stand up to the introduction of the new social networking services that will in future be an inevitable development of technology.
It's ok posting pictures and comments to LIKE and playing games etc. but the site needs to move beyond that. It needs more real time services. Sharing pictures instantly, not just telling people what you are listening to but actually all listening to the same music together and not just commenting but group social chatting together. Create an atmosphere in real time. Let people touch each other and laugh at each other photos together, not just after the event. These real time services will create online rooms where friends can interact like never before and that's just the start, it's the inevitable future of social networking and it's going to be wonderfull....
Oh hang on I've just described a f*****g pub!
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