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Facebook appears to be down.
A link for this submission? Really? But it is down, as in not working. Error 5 - something went wrong.
[chromas adds] From VOA:
Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for more than several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a tweet, but its parent Facebook Inc.'s app still seemed to be down for some users around the globe.
Certain users had trouble in accessing widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps earlier Wednesday, in one of the longest outages faced by the company in the recent past.
[...] A Facebook spokesman confirmed the partial outage, but did not provide an update. The social networking site had issues for more than 12 hours, according to its developer's page.
Facebook took to Twitter to inform users that it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible and confirmed that the matter was not related to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:38PM (7 children)
(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:59PM (3 children)
Huddled in a dark corner, he stared longingly and blankly at his cell phone. His cell phone blankly stared back at him. That is all he could see, an empty screen with nothing but the words "Error 5".
He began rocking back and forth nervously, the cell phone illuminating his face with its ghostly blueish-white glow.
It had been hours now. He had been unable tell complete strangers about what he had eaten earlier. He could not see whats-her-name's new cat pictures. The endless message feeds were now quiet. Sweat began to drip from his brow. What would he possibly do?
In desperation, he had already tired downloading the "Fix Facebook Error 5" software from that helpful looking malware site. But his efforts were fruitless. Nothing worked.
He gripped his cell phone tighter. "Is this... perhaps... the end of the world?" he thought to himself. For a moment, he envisioned himself driving a tank through an abandoned downtown. Out of habit, he reached to his phone to type out that thought for his network of "friends".... but the error message persisted.
What could he possibly do? He wondered again. He glanced around, noting the glowing blue LEDs of his various electronic gadgets. But it all seemed so pointless now.
A cat appears in the doorway. It glances at him annoyedly. For a moment he extends his arm to take a picture with his cell phone. But he drops is arm in despair. It won't work. The cat turns and darts away as he begins sobbing loudly.
He gently caresses the screen of his precious phone. The phone hypnotically scrolls to another, mostly empty page. He caresses it again, scrolling back. "It can't be true. This can't be happening.", he sobs to himself, as he continues to scroll the hypnotic screen back and forth... back and forth... back and forth...
Facebook is down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:07PM (2 children)
FB is down...but in his random scrolling back and forth he landed here on SN?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:01PM
Yea! We want part 2!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @11:17PM
$deity spare us from the scourge.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:24PM (1 child)
I'm only on Facebook to promote my books and web sites, but people there were pretty freaked out this morning. One woman was boo-hooing about not being able to post a picture of her lunch.
BTW, if you're in Antarctica and on Facebook, please send me a friend request. That is the final continent I have no friends in on.
mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Thursday March 14 2019, @10:31PM
Antarctica is the sort of place where people with no friends are sent. Good luck!
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:29PM
I don't use FaceBook, but I imagine it looked something like this [youtube.com]
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