Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime 103
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."
OH NOES (Score:5, Insightful)
Meh, it happens...just like a power company, no one says a word when the thing works fine for weeks or months at a time...but when it goes down for a couple hours, people act like it never works.
"mass hysteria"? (Score:5, Insightful)
and mass hysteria all around the world.
[citation needed].
First I knew was when I read about it on another tech blog, hours after it'd happened...and I use Facebook. And I work with a ton of people who use it (grad students.)
There wasn't mass hysteria; there was mass ambivalence. I'm now reading all these blog/news postings about how "everyone" went crazy. Nobody was talking about it where I ate dinner. Nobody was talking about it where I had coffee that evening. It didn't make my city newspaper- no "Facebook down, residents in despair" stories to be found.
All this coverage claiming that everyone went nuts seems like a desperate attempt by Facebook PR to make something positive out of this...namely, trying to convince us that Facebook is so integral to the people who use it, it must, of course, be to us as well.
Re:Wifey was gutted... I wasn't (Score:4, Insightful)
"John Marshall: how do i get job workin with facebook i live in newcastle in uk can any one from facebook staff get or can some one give me a email address that i can use to contact facebook please"
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very doomed.
Re:Official Technical Details (Score:3, Insightful)
The metaphysical reason was karmic payback (Score:2, Insightful)
If you suck so bad on a global scale long enough, eventually the universe tries to step in.
Farrmville continued to run? (Score:3, Insightful)
Does the clock stop for Farmville if Facebook goes down?
Re:OH NOES (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:"mass hysteria"? (Score:4, Insightful)
[citation needed].
[citation] [wikipedia.org]
Re:"mass hysteria"? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a toilet all right, but a very annoying one: you hear every flush coming from your friends' toilet as well.
Re:"mass hysteria"? (Score:2, Insightful)