The Day that Facebook Died

[Jim Poor]

Of course, it will be revived, but FB is Down and the referee is counting: 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . .

[LewisCanon]

yes, indeed, its totally F****D, just after they made the full switch to the new format it went boom

[CheaperKings]

Originally Posted by Jim Poor

Of course, it will be revived, but FB is Down and the referee is counting: 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . .

Did I miss something?

[NicoleScraps]

When did this happen? I have been on FB on and off all day.

[AnonymousKiwi1]

It's working fine in my part of the world.

[Jim Poor]

It's back up now, but it was down (apparently globally) for about an hour. Google it for the whole story, but I think it had to do with the roll out of new branded pages.

[candleman]

facebook is now using facial recognition to tell you who your friends are... i really don't like the sound of that...

[Biomech]

Still mashed in the UK, it's been about 2 hours now +. It all went tits up when they tried to mod the fan/business pages and ruined them with a new layout and aweful lightbox. Then they reverted to the standard style and then it went down completely.... still waiting

[NicoleScraps]

Originally Posted by candleman

facebook is now using facial recognition to tell you who your friends are... i really don't like the sound of that...

WOW, I hadn't heard about this one. I just googled and read a couple of articles. One said this, which is good. Most times they offer a way to opt out.

People who don't want their names automatically suggested in photo tags can disable the feature by adjusting Facebook privacy settings, according to the engineer.

I did see that they improved the "fan pages" Now if you log in to your personal, go to your page, click log into your page, you get the red boxes notifying you of stuff. It didn't do that before.

[Biomech]

Can't say I'm a fan. Opt-out doesn't mean a lot. It would be like someone having all your credit card details and you opt out of them being shown in public, doesn't mean they can't sit there going through them. I really don't see why a social networking site needs face recognition. I know what my friends look like.

I am, and have been for some time, convinced that facebook is a government data mining project. This new face recognition just means they can see who so******es with who without any other form of interaction.