Facebook going on and off. What’s Going on?. Since past one week, we are seeing and hearing some terrible news of big company’s demise for few seconds, minutes or hours. The first to fall prey was Apple. Where the hackers hacked into Apple’s web store in China.
The next one we see was Microsoft owned Skype which succumbed to technical error for as long as 8 hours disabling users to contacts their loved ones. Then comes WhatsApp which again fell prey to its own technical glitch. Next is the current newsmaker which is thinking of adding another feature to itself. Yes, we are talking about the world’s largest social networking site connecting billions, Facebook.
Today on 24th September 2015, Thursday, 10:00 PM IST, Facebook.com and Facebook Mobile App went down with a message “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” And 2 minutes later at 10:02 PM it was back again and live for a couple of seconds. But just seconds later at 10:03 PM Facebook again went down for complete 8 minutes and was back live by 10:12 PM.
Many facebook users were unable to open Facebook or log into Facebook. Here are some tweets people updated and we guess you will relate those 12 minutes of no facebook moments.
#Facebook having issues. Is anyone in a panic yet? pic.twitter.com/6K3yJQnX9U
— PaulPannone (@PaulPannone) September 24, 2015
And on September 24, 2015, at 12:30PM EST, world productivity rose an astounding 7000000%. #facebookdown #facebook — Comcastro Podcast (@ComcastroShow) September 24, 2015
We think we MAY have discovered the source of the #Facebook outage… pic.twitter.com/efoJkxUpwS
— Radio Times (@RadioTimes) September 24, 2015
You know you’re over #Facebook when you didn’t even know about #facebookdown till someone tweeted about it ???? — RGV Love (@roligaurvashist) September 24, 2015
#Facebook goes down with this message… #facebookdown http://t.co/wJ4rh0RS1h pic.twitter.com/ox3nKhgGUp
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 24, 2015
Searching “facebook down” on Twitter to see if it’s just you ???? #facebookdown — Funny Tweets (@FunnyThingsUK) September 24, 2015
Even if some people were successful in opening their home page in facebook they did notice the amount of time Facebook was consuming while updating a normal three line post. Which indicates that it is or it was slow for a short moment.
One of the reasons we speculate about why Facebook blacked out for 12 long minutes. Is possibly due to the addition of the new Facebook button. It is to be believed that Facebook is working on their new button, that some people are doubting to be the ‘dislike button’ and some people are believing it to be the new ‘Empathy button’.
Whatever it is, still we cannot see any major difference with the Facebook interface, but we’ll make sure to update you on that if any major changes happen with world’s most used social media service, Facebook. But we haven’t seen such lags in past when timeline feature was added to facebook leaving millions disappointed.
Another reason could be the same old Technical Error/Glitch. But with an internet based company this big, it is very unlikely to happen anything of that sorts.
We might see these 12 minutes blackout with Facebook to be nothing of a major issue, and most of us can ignore this part with a grain of salt, reason being the fact that anything in this world is not meant to last forever and every once in a while, websites like this running out of service for few moment is not a big deal. But the question is within these 12 minutes has Facebook suffered any major loss both in terms of money or the users privacy safety which it takes pride in.
Here Are Couple Of Theories Why Facebook Can Possibly Go Down
1. Integral Redesign
As mentioned above, it is believed that Facebook is now working and is about to implement the new button that will soon accompany the ‘Like’ button on Facebook. It is strongly believed that now Facebook is working on a new system that will allow the users to show empathy for a particular post, as quoted by Mark in his video.
It is very unlikely that Facebook will actually bring a dislike button since Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Founder & CEO clearly mentioned that they don’t want Facebook to be that kind of social media where people can show their hate to some other individual by the means of disliking or unliking their post and emotionally hurt them, just because they have the options of doing so.
2. Hacking Activity
The other major theory, that is believed why Facebook went down for 12 long minutes is due to some hacker’s hacking activity where they were successful in bringing down world’s most largest social media website, Facebook. However, this is the same exact reason why Facebook spends millions for their security and privacy.
Let’s see what happens in this coming weeks. Which one is next to suffer a technical glitch or hackers wrath. Is it Twitter, or Snapchat again? Or maybe something/ someone else?
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