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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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  1. Andy 68

    I take it

    you've not seen the 4chan threat earlier, then?


    1. Anonymous Bastard

      4chan 'tards

      That ultimatum displays all the spelling ("becomming") and grammar ("We tried petitioning they.") that we've come to expect from 4chan. At least it's convincingly authentic.

      1. Adam Salisbury

        H3ar c0m3z teh l33t hax0rz

        Facebook downtime courtesy of 4chan? Gues the skiddies are good for at least one thing then

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  2. Bugs R Us
    Paris Hilton


    See. Keep networks neutral.

    1. ElReg!comments!Pierre Silver badge

      Keep networks neutral?

      Well, there are pros and there are cons. But what's the link between network neutrality issues and technical infrastructure quirks, pray tell?

  3. The Envoy

    So was 4chan "vicorious" then?

    Just asking

  4. Richard 45

    No title

    Meanwhile, several hundred people suddenly discovered that they had a life.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward


      Several million others realised that they didn't...

  5. Reverend Brown

    Oh no.

    Do some work, read a book, pet your real cat instead of fawning over pictures of them, I dunno. Big deal.

    1. VinceH

      Letters, Digits.

  6. Rick Leeming
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    Got to love it, some people think the entire 'net is facebook, they'll be in TEARS.

  7. Cunningly Linguistic


    ...why would people complain to El Reg when Facebook is down?

    It's not like you're in India is it?

  8. Ihre Papiere Bitte!!



    1. Anonymous Coward

      What it is, is

      ... the new phenomenon of, when you meet someone in RL from FB you poke them in the chest and shout "LIKE!" ... followed by copious drinking and having comments tattooed on each other forearms. Hi-larious!

    2. Pandy06269
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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.

    3. Wommit

      To enlighten you

      would also involve showing that one was a user of facebook. Thus opening the enlightener to the natural ridicule of his or her peers.

      Thus, your enlightenment may take a long time.

      1. Adam Salisbury

        Surely you missed a bit...

        You know, the bit where you take hundreds of photocopies of all your most personal details and hand them out the everyone you meet?

    4. Ihre Papiere Bitte!!


      Thanx for the people who gave an answer.

      4 downvotes (so far) for asking an honest question?


  9. David Gosnell

    Already seeing the hoaxes (presumably) going round


    "‎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"

  10. Martin Budden Bronze badge


    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.

  11. Winkypop Silver badge
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    1. Adam Salisbury

      The cheek of it

      I'm no Facebook fan but the cheek of a Twatterer to try and make fun of the Facespace mob!

      Meanwhile the recent complete Twitter failure has left thousands realising no-one cares what they had for breakfast nor what the bus smells like this morning...

  12. gimbal

    Nothing to be concerned about

    ...just Skynet going through another growing pain.


  13. Piro


    Nothing of value was lost

  14. The Indomitable Gall

    Network probs...?

    When I tried to connect it reported a DNS error, so I'm not sure the scepticism is really justified.

  15. leona 2

    Sad, isn't it.

    That facebook goes off the air for a few hours and the world grinds to a halt, you know there was life before facebook, and scary as it sounds, there will be life afterwards!

    [ Like ] ;)

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    who are these people?

    "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.

    1. Anonymous Coward

      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

    2. J P


      How do you ring anyone when your phone isn't working?

      In other shock news, the human race survived over 4 hours without Facebook in 1985. In fact, it coped for a whopping 8,765 hours without Facebook in 1985. Why can it not do so now..?

  17. Real Name


    managed to stay up, which is more surprising.

    1. Shane Orahilly

      There were some knock-on effects seemed ironically to be overwhelmed to the point it couldn't cope with my query for whether it was down for everyone, or just me.

  18. Fluffer

    So what?

    It's free, it's sad, get over it, rediscover your life.

  19. copsewood
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    Expect a baby boom

    In around 9 months time.

  20. Anonymous Coward
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    "We’re currently experiencing some site issues"

    Zuckerberg spilled hot coffee and doughnut crumbs into the server?

    Wouldn't be surprised.

  21. Adam Salisbury

    If only it'd been longer

    I'm still waiting to see what real Facebook withdrawl looks like, most people start getting more twitchy than heroin addicts if they can't log on between work breaks let alone for hours at a time!

  22. Elmer Phud

    Missed it

    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?

  23. tardigrade

    If only faceache were more like....

    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!

  24. chris 130


    and yet no-one noticed.........

  25. Matt Newton

    I don't have a facebook account


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