Facebook Down, Slows Up Large Chunk of Internet

[sabra]

http://thenewsoftoday.com/facebook-down-slows-up-large-chunk-of-internet/2512/

As if it wasn’t bad enough that one of most popular websites in the world seems to be down for the majority of users on the planet, the downtime of Facebook has also been responsible to slowing up a good portion of the internet.

Not only is Facebook.com down, but the like button, share button, and like widgets are also down. This means that any sites which have these features integrated into their site will experience slower load speeds as user’s browsers get tied up trying to load the various widgets and buttons from the facebook servers. Also any sites using Facebook connect will also be unusable during this time.

The downtime seems to have started approximately 70 minutes ago, and is one of the more widespread outages that Facebook has experienced in recent times.

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. One website can screw up the whole series of tubes?

Wow.

Maybe it is time for facebook to disappear forever. For National Security, of course. :evilgrin:

[JuniperLea]

3. Time to flush the tubes maybe?

Get that FB shit out of there? :evilgrin:

[Bryn]

20. No No No Many People on FB are activists

Against the Corporate Personhood, against messing with SS, support Unions, against all things that super rich/elites/corporations support as well as fighting against extending the tax cuts for the rich. We need those people to get truth out.

I bet you that CEO of facebook doesn't like it. Recently he gave 500 million dollars to a school, but someone mentioned that he wanted to destroy the teacher union. Not sure if this is true.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Let Zuckerman's whiz kids at the charter schools fix the damned problem.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

4. Kinda like those derivatives that inextricably tangled the good with the bad. nt

[cbdo2007]

5. This doesn't seem to be slowing down many other sites.

I've gone to check on a few sites that I know of with multiple facebook widgets and they all loaded just as fast but with a red x picture box in that space where the widget was.

Probably just the influx of the millions of people having to visit the other websites and blogging on other sites that Facebook is down is what is causing the slowdown.

[patrice]

6. I'd bet money, TPB HATE FB.

[DJ13]

8. Why would they, its a great marketing tool

[appleannie1]

7. The only site I am having a problem with is Facebook itself. Can't get on it at all.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. It's just slow, not out completely for me in Los Angeles

I suspect a DOS attack is under way.

[frogmarch]

10. Down for me in western NE

I'm a rather new Fb user. Do these downtimes happen a lot?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. not that I have noticed.... n/t

[demodonkey]

11. Wow... yep it's down. (I'm in PA near Pittsburgh) nt

[snooper2]

16. It's down for people in the Arctic as well...

I'm pretty sure it's down for some folks in Holland as well :rofl:

[Ex Lurker]

12. yeah, I'm actually having to do some work today nt

[Blue_Tires]

13. I blame that Hollywood movie... After that was made, no one would be in the office

:think:

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. Now they have no DNS servers available

I expect they threw that switch to end the traffic that was eating up all their bandwidth. Now they are truly offline. :(

[Cronus Protagonist]

18. Back online in CA now

Still slow, but working.

[JCMach1]

17. Down in UAE as well

[fl_dem]

19. my most productive work day all week!

:smoke:

[customerserviceguy]

21. I agree with Betty White

when she joked that it was a waste of time.

Start charging Facebook for the bandwith it sucks up, then that will force them to charge users for it. Problem solved.

[Bryn]

22. Still down here in Arkansas

:)

[keroro gunsou]

23. it'a up here

in wisconsin... as of 4.10pm