"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/facebook-says-it-is-working-on-technical-troubles/

Facebook users have been seeing the site go on and offline Thursday. The company issued a statement but gave no explanation as to the cause:

We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

The downtime also affected sites that incorporate Facebook’s “Like” buttons and the Facebook Connect service. In place of the “Like” button, many Web sites were scattered with empty white boxes.

Facebook’s developer Web site remained live during the outage and noted that the company was experiencing problems with its API. A statement on the site said:

Current Status: API Latency Issues

We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved or we have an ETA for resolution.

Thi

lol hro wont load

better start calling people to make sure they're ok

haha

man this evening is s0 2005

Last update I've gotten in their IPod client: 2:42 PM.

i don't need this shit, i'm going back to friendster

knocking Facebook offline was one of the ten plagues Moses wrought on Egypt iirc.

feels kinda cool

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2005/spotifyu.png

omg spotify's broken!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-sci-fi-fantasy-2006/3598-1.jpg

what happens if Twitter AND facebook stops working? How will we communicate?

ILX!!!

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/23/facebook-down/

♪ miss you miss you ♪

lol at ILX being all fb cynics maintaining ironic distance etc until fb goes down and then fb ilx thread has 100 new messages

i like to think i've maintained my sarcastic veneer this evening too

comes and goes, comes and goes. like my "irony".

only so many times you can sarcastically mention fb crashing before we notice the tears running down u're cheeks :'(

♪ dont waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head ♪

♪ miss you miss you ♪

only so many times you can sarcastically mention fb crashing before we notice the tears running down u're cheeks :'(

― Mordy, Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:54 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

there is a special place in hell for knife-twisting wound-salting down-kickers like you, just let us grieve in peace you insensitive asshole

thought all these new answers were about the movie

(I am not on fb fwiw)

*rejects god*

http://i54.tinypic.com/xfool5.jpg

it's back

http://i54.tinypic.com/2ihlenq.jpg

We all learned a lot about our common humanity from this experience. Put our guards down and taught each other a lot. Never forget the past few hours.

http://i52.tinypic.com/1zxmmpx.jpg

Anyone else seen these? A couple of people I know got spammed by it

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/09/24/girl-killed-dad-posted-wall-spin-facebook-scam/

A few people I know have been spammed by this, and similar - I tend to ignore Likes or Groups with spelling/grammar/structure mistakes or Random Capitals because that way lies phishing, 419s and viruses - not to mention the hive-mind of stupid enticed to Like topics that sound like a segment of America's Funniest Home Videos.

I wanted the link at the end of the piece to go to a phishing scam page

How effective is your "raising awareness" Facebook campaign when you never actually, you know, mention the fucking cause? I'm deleting anybody on my feed that posts the "I like it on the back of my chair" meme.

not to mention the hive-mind of stupid enticed to Like topics that sound like a segment of America's Funniest Home Videos.

uh oh. looks like im about to get phished

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-ta-tas-breast-cancer-awareness-tees-and-accessories/33525193712

When's David Fincher gonna make a movie about that?

The way that Facebook connects the dots from the information that one gives it in various contexts is tremendously impressive, if a little unsettling. I maintian that it KNOWS.

The context being that I just had a friend suggestion that made me think this once again.

http://ferdyonfilms.com/2001%20hal%20dying.jpg

http://imgur.com/4I5In.jpg

Oh the new questions feature is a joy all unto itself and I'd been meaning to start a thread about some of the lolworthy ones Ive seen recently.

xp Amputees know what they did.

facebookquestions.tumblr.com already taken :(

kinda hate how FB knows which friend I'm looking up the second I type the first letter or two of their name. Also hate how well it recommends photo albums/pictures to me.

Am I that obvious, FB?

I'm telling you, this thing is clever.

why does facebook show me when my friends comment on people's pages that aren't my friends

Because Facebook thinks you might be interested and the people whose pages your friends are commenting on have rather lax privacy settings.

thats crap

Sorry.

god - the photo album suggestions - uh, yeah ...

Yeah I dont see too many comments to other ppl I dont know's walls, most people I know must be fairly locked down. Or maybe its that I never look at Top News, morelikely.

The photo memories are doing my head in. For 2 weeks now it's been pitching photos at me of a cute friend of my housemate's that I met a couple of times and had told I didnt wanna date. It made me lol, so I told him about it and now we're talkign to each other heaps hahaa. Uh. Thanks, FB? :/

photo memories gives me a steady stream of former crushes