Facebook is Down 185
Facebook, the world's largest social networking website, is down for many, users say. Third-party web monitoring tool DownDetector corroborates the claim, adding that more than 11,000 people have reported issues with accessing Facebook in the last 30 minutes or so.
Facebook's outage means social buttons and other Facebook functionalities that are embedded all over the web are also facing issue. Update: Instagram appears to be down, too, for some users.
Update 2: In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said, "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
Facebook's outage means social buttons and other Facebook functionalities that are embedded all over the web are also facing issue. Update: Instagram appears to be down, too, for some users.
Update 2: In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said, "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
And the world.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And the world.... (Score:5, Funny)
If it wasn't posted on /. I would never have noticed it.
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Slashdot: News About Other Social Networks
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A good day! Facebook is down! (Score:2)
I think the Subject: pretty much sums it up, but...
Solutions, are there no solutions?
My favored approach would remain some strong form of MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) to let me filter in favor of people who are not actually wasting my time.
A modicum of politeness for strangers? You must be new around Facebook.
Re:And the world.... (Score:5, Funny)
....is temporarily a BETTER place for it!!
Going to be a lot of December babies this year...
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....is temporarily a BETTER place for it!!
Going to be a lot of December babies this year...
What makes you think these virtual friends would want to see each other in real life, much less copulate?
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No, he's saying that with Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. down, couples have some chance of putting their phones down and copulating.
I felt a great disturbance in the force ... (Score:1)
" felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of public sector workers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly forced to begin being productive"
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You trying to tell me the onslaught of anonymous trolls on here makes for a better social experience?
I'm better off with my friends. Close or less close.
Re:And the world.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, I've never actually considered Slashdot to be a 'social' site really.....not in the context of the commonly thought of 'social media' of today.
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This is modded "Funny" but should be "Insightful".
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Nothing of value was lost.
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I miss the older days of the internet when this kind of shit would be on Usenet.
First Against the Wall (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:First Against the Wall (Score:5, Funny)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.
Now's your chance, go outside! (Score:5, Funny)
There's birds and air and stuff out there! And you won't be pissed off at your friends!
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There's birds and air and stuff out there! And you won't be pissed off at your friends!
Are you trying to kill me? It all over the news yesterday that the air is going to kill me https://www.weforum.org/agenda... [weforum.org].
But joke's on them. Skin cancer will get me first.
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59 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 15 C to you foreigners) and sunny with a light breeze here on the central coast of California today... Surf's up, and the beer is cold.
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Outside is SO overrated.
And then it's not (Score:2)
And before it's a story it's old news.
Instagram is down too (Score:1)
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What little thing called redundancy?
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YAY! (Score:2)
NOW GET BACK TO WORK!
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I can't, the place I'm working at has "Facebook Workplace" for the intranet. That's down too.
And (Score:2, Insightful)
Who cares?
If this is the new content filtering. (Score:5, Funny)
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The System Is Down... (Score:2)
Insert obligatory Homestar Runner reference here.
Praise (Score:1)
Be to Allah
(and I'm an Atheist).
Re: Praise (Score:1)
Allah is a cunt.
Syndrome (Score:2)
Facebook is Down
If you take that as a definition, I see a lot of people who suffer from a facebook syndrome.
Wish Twitter went with it (Score:2)
Good thing: I didn't get banned again for my political troll post's on facebook.
Bad thing: I didn't get banned again from facebook.
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I don't think he is a good president, or even a good person. But I don't hate the guy, I don't really know him.
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Hating someone is just to much effort ...
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Give him a break. He can't even conjugate verbs.
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I'm not petty either. The guy is a world class, Grade A, piece of shit. A truly awful, awful person, in every sense of the word.
I'm not petty either, but my friend Tom who has a band is!
(Thank you, I'll be here all week, don't forgot to tip your waiter)
They removed all the.... (Score:5, Funny)
...conspiracies...
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Well, yeah that's what THEY want us to think...
clearly it's(*&(*#&@)(*$...out of cheese error
+melon +melon +melon
Please reinstall universe and reboot.
+++[NO CARRIER
here's how to fix that when it comes back online (Score:5, Funny)
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
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Walk softly, else you will summon him!
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I've heard tell that slapping in "0" was marginally faster (and thus infinitely superior) than "0.0.0.0". Maybe that's only on Windows boxes?
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You know that grep takes a file list as an argument, don't you?
grep faceb
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
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i just always pipe stuff around because it's easy to remember.
find blah blah | grep, cat foo | sed | grep, and so on.
And (Score:5, Funny)
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No, something of negative value was "lost".
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Actually losses will likely be in the millions as facebook authorization is not working cutting traffic to sites and usage of apps.
If it's up, is it really down... (Score:2)
It could be some people cannot access Facebook, but for me it's been up all morning (and still is) - I see content from as recently as 11 minutes ago...
So it doesn't seem like Facebook is down so much as, there is some kind of large scale network anomaly somewhere. Are any other sites affected for people?
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If there's a network anomaly, it's probably inside Facebook's network. I can access the site, and I can type stuff into Facebook, but when I submit it I get back an error message.
Facebook is down??? (Score:2)
Yay!!
The problem with AI (Score:5, Funny)
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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit; It's the only way to be sure.
Please be patient... (Score:1)
...installing new NSA software...
Actually, facebook is not completly down (Score:3)
BUT, if you click on a link to a specific page.
Example: https://www.facebook.com/busin... [facebook.com]
The page resolves. so, not completely down as we all had hoped.
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It's not down, it's just bleeding in the corner. I can read, and I can react to things (with the like etc. buttons) but I can't post anything, including status updates and comments. However, at least some other people can do at least some of this stuff, and other functionality is working fine. One of my friends posted a status update wondering if she was in Fb jail, and I was able to send her a PM. And I cleared my cache, so clearly Fb is still sufficiently "up" that it can send me both the program and the
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I thought I was in FB jail too. I can't like or comment, and a (slightly um... edgy) comment I made earlier seems to have disappeared, along with someone's response. My wife can like but not comment. I guess it's just a weird coincidence.
Enjoy your brief period of relative PRIVACY (Score:5, Funny)
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It's like that moment in the third Matrix movie when Trinity flies the ship above the clouds for a second.
Productivity skyrockets! (Score:3)
EOM
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No... everyone is talking about how Facebook is down instead of doing work.
Cool! (Score:2)
I wondered why the internet smelled better all of a sudden.
In other news... (Score:2)
May it stay down forever! (Score:3)
No one's information is being stolen and sold. So that isn't bad at all!
Trouble afoot? (Score:2)
Yesterday it was GMail and YouTube that went down... today Facebook...
Is there a storm brewing in them thar clouds perhaps? :-)
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No, just a Kasperski lab anti-virus update.
Good! (Score:2)
Perhaps it will stay down?
The only winning move is not to play. (and not use Facebook)
In other news: Productivity skyrockets (Score:2)
For those of us not on some other website complaining about it at least.
and the whales rejoiced (Score:2)
When a Good Idea for a Podcast is a Bad Idea for a Podcast [prx.org] — 2017
17:05 "What's going on? I was trying to learn."
20:00 "The ocean ... felt like a giant church ... in the absence of extraneous influences. It was strangely magical."
22:00 The quietest day on the East Coast that anyone had heard in fifty years.
...and nothing of value was lost. (Score:2)
and very appropriately when posting this I got the error:
"ameness filter encountered. Post aborted!"
Oh no!! (Score:2)
Oh no,,,
how will I,,,
how will I,,,,
how wlll I....
Never Mind.
Zuckerberg was able to get it up again (Score:2)
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Millennials everywhere mumble in fetal positions (Score:2)
Oh the humanity!
Right now millions of baby boomers are - (Score:1)
Blinking, looking around confusedly and murmuring - 'wait ... we elected who? ... that game show host? .... oh christ... '
Re: Right now millions of baby boomers are - (Score:1)
It's weird you reply as anon,
almost like you don't want to put your name to that.
And last night Google Drive and GMAIL were off... (Score:1)
Think Huwaei is testing their resolve and capabilities?
For everyone posting "Good"... (Score:3, Insightful)
...realize that there are around 750,000,000 people who care WAY more about this than the number of people who care if Slashdot goes down.
You can laugh, sneer, and make so-called witty comments, but you're in the minority. Compared to Facebook, Slashdot is nugatory.
More to the point, where is any kind of technical analysis or discussion? The total abandonment of any actual technical commentary in favor of childish rhetoric is why I years ago stopped logging in to my >20 year old /. account, and barely come here any more.
"He stopped loading Slashdot, when it had changed so much that there was no longer anything of value to be lost."
This is scarry (Score:2)
Obligatory (Score:3)
Obligatory "...and nothing of value was lost" statement.
Oh no. (Score:1)
That unusual sound you hear... (Score:1)
What else is new? (Score:2)
To put it more precisely, Facebook is useless in a manner inconsistent with its normal uselessness.
The actual issue (Score:2)
Facebook is down because someone accidentally shut it off.
Ironically, the Facebook technical team communicates via Facebook so they're unable to fix it.
Good. (Score:2)
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First time in a long time I wished I had mod points...