It’s like you were chosen out of the loser lottery when you tried to open your Facebook account and received a “site maintenance” display. If you were one of the 150,000 unlucky winners you’re probably back at ease since you can log in again. Or aren’t you?
Facebook announced today that the weeklong outage has been repaired yet some of us will find that postings, photos, contacts and personal information may be missing or inaccurate. Missing, where has it gone? Better yet, why the outage? Oh, you mean the technical issue. Well, that explains it all then.
If you’re like me, you look further into the question of “why”. Not that Facebook would explain anything further than” technical issues”. Let’s be honest, the World Wide Web is sort of a life line for many of us. So easily we put our trust into the sites we choose to post our personal information on. We do our banking there, our online shopping, networking, resume posting, vacation planning and well, pretty much anything. You can virtually do anything on the web.
So, it makes you wonder when you see that your Facebook status has reverted from married back to single. Don’t be fooled, everything you post on Facebook, has been saved somewhere in the virtual world. Take it for what it is and be weary of what and how much personal information you release. Even though this outage wrecked havoc on your day to day obsession with Facebook, positively speaking, this is an eye opener and maybe we should thank them for the lesson well learned. All I’m saying is that there is always a positive in a negative, if you know how to look on the bright side.
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I hadn’t been experiencing any problems until a few days ago :S I seem to be getting the same symptoms as others had previously. only i can sometimes log into my account however with my friends list gone and my news feed only showing updates from pages i’m a fan of. So… Another database having the same problem?
Ben, the same thing is happening to me.
This is really frustrating.
Anyone have a resolution to this yet? I am experiencing the same issues!!!
I’ve also had difficultly logging into my account. When I actually get in, my friends list and wall sometimes go missing, thus I only see my fan pages on the news feed. Occasionally I am able to see my friends, but it is only occasionally. This has been going on for 3 days now. I’m wondering if they’ll finally fix the problem.
I haven’t been able to log into my account for two days. I continually receive a “site maintenance” message. Sometimes I’m bumped to a second login page. This is so frustrating.
Still can’t login. Getting same maintenance error message – not just temporary issue like overloaded server. Got in once and parts of page missing.
Four days now for me, this issue is not fixed. No friends in friends list, no news feed, and 99% of the time I can’t log in to Facebook at all – just get the same old “site maintenance” error message.
hi i cannot see :my friend lists,my in box messages, my farms i don’t understand why?