Facebook Is Down 448
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.'"
Only IPv4 (Score:5, Interesting)
I believe this only affected those of you stuck in the last millennium. http://v6.facebook.com [facebook.com]
Re:It's back now (Score:5, 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.
Aw crap! - real link (Score:4, Interesting)
Nuts, it only works as http://www.v6.facebook.com/ [facebook.com]. Thanks to webmistressrachel for the correction.
Re: Facebook Is Down (Score:2, Interesting)
I pretty much only use my phone for facebook. Less adds for apps that steal your soul, and I'm that kind of guy who doesn't want his soul stolen you know?
Re: Facebook Is Down (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Grow up. (Score:5, 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.
Re:Grow up. (Score:5, 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.
Like is the only option (Score:2, Interesting)
Facebook is the opposite of email. (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re: Facebook Is Down (Score:3, Interesting)
behaviour that was once rightfully considered crazy/creepy is now mainstream.
I agree that creepy people can be exceptionally creepy on Facebook and pals - but I did nothing creepy. Had I tracked down each of these people for no real reason other than curiosity... that would be creepy. But all I did was post a class picture... not creepy at all, even 10 or 15 years ago that would have been pretty acceptable.
Re:Grow up. (Score:3, Interesting)
How are you going to attach pictures to an electronic mail message, jackass? You can't staple photographs to electrons. Get a grip on reality.
Catering to the stupid (Score:2, Interesting)
There go my mod points, but fuck it, I can't bear reading this stupidity once more.
E-mail accounts don't change. People change them because they're lazy or stupid.
The same people don't forget their Facebook logins and passwords, do they? Then why do they change e-mail addresses like others change their underwear?
It's often the same people who have a handful of addresses, so you never know which of those they monitor and which they don't, and they will often reply to mail from another address than the one you mailed, regularly from ones you've never heard of before.
Oh, and don't forget those who don't even *know* their correct addresses and tell you some guess instead. I've been the recipient of such mail for years when some gal gave out an address from my domain because she couldn't remember her TLD even if her life depended on it (I have a .de, she was on something else but giving out a .de address to everyone and their dog). She was a very active hotchatter, judging from the "erotic" stories and dick shots I received. The guys usually were quite embarrassed when I replied "nice cock shot, but the stupid fuck doesn't know her own e-mail address - please tell her when you meet her again".
That was in the Old Days(TM) before this was a common spam topic, around when Eternal September started. I never got to know her real e-mail address even though I've really tried. Cornelia. If the German proverb that "stupidity fucks best" holds water, she must be one of the best fucks ever.
But I digress.
Long story short, tell people that e-mail addresses are meant to be permanent and they won't get their pregnancy updates if they change their e-mail address without notifying you. It can be done. I've only met one or two people who didn't at least keep one permanent address around after my explanation. Oh, and be kind. They just don't understand.