Is Facebook broken?

[NickFitz]

I think I should put a crying smilie on here too...

:weep:

It's even been "trending" (wotever that is) on Twitter. I was quite amused by a comment (whoops, I mean "tweet") by a friend of mine. Typical capitalists, exploiting other people's misery

Oh, and there was this one as well

[TimberWolf]

Worst Facebook Outage In Four Years Explained - ITProPortal.com

It was the computer.

[fullyautomatix]

Did the entire world come to a complete stop ?

I would love it if the internet access of the world stopped for a few days. Half my life is on the internet these days and I need to kick the addiction.

[Clippy]

Worst Facebook Outage In Four Years Explained - ITProPortal.com

It was the computer.

How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally.

[NickFitz]

Did the entire world come to a complete stop ?

See for yourself

[mudskipper]

How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally.

WIS

[shaunbhoy]

It comes as no surprise to me that this action resolved the problem. The older I get, the more I realise that the majority of problems can generally be resolved with a 3-pin reset. Provided you can circumvent the young naive Mr Smartypants that seems always to be in attendance, suggesting prolonged and almost always pointless investigation in a vain attempt to impress senior management.

[Zippy]

It comes as no surprise to me that this action resolved the problem. The older I get, the more I realise that the majority of problems can generally be resolved with a 3-pin reset. Provided you can circumvent the young naive Mr Smartypants that seems always to be in attendance, suggesting prolonged and almost always pointless investigation in a vain attempt to impress senior management.

A little harsh. Maybe you want to work out why the problem happened in the first place?

[shaunbhoy]

Maybe you want to work out why the problem happened in the first place?

Well in an ideal world, yes. However one is seldom allowed the luxury of prolonged root cause investigation when the customer's network is on its knees. Get it working again then deliberate afterwards is the general rule of thumb in most systems I have worked on.