Facebook Goes Down

Remember the days when you couldn’t access Friendster because the site wasn’t loading? How about the annoying page on Facebook saying that they were performing server maintenance? This morning I received a message stating the following: “Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.” What the hell? Don’t you know that I have a blog to maintain? This is completely unacceptable. I have to be honest, I kind of thought that Facebook was invisible to the troubles of past social networks. Looks like they may not be. Darn it! Guess I’ll just have to weather the storm.

 



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37 Comments »

  1. facebook.com doesn't even load up now!

    Comment by clark — June 29, 2007 @ 5:54 am

  2. I'm not sure which is worse: 25+ million people suffering from social withdrawal or the revenue that all of those people who built apps are losing. When MySpace went down back in May they had a better statement: "We're hoping to have friendship restored to our users as soon as possible."**Quoted from the Onion's story titled: "MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless", http://www.theonion.com/content/news/myspace_ou…..

    Comment by Jobmatchbox — June 29, 2007 @ 6:44 am

  3. facebook.com doesn't even load up now!

    Comment by clark — June 29, 2007 @ 6:54 am

  4. I'm not sure which is worse: 25+ million people suffering from social withdrawal or the revenue that all of those people who built apps are losing. When MySpace went down back in May they had a better statement:

    "We're hoping to have friendship restored to our users as soon as possible."*

    *Quoted from the Onion's story titled: "MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless", http://www.theonion.com/content/news/myspace_outa...

    Comment by Jobmatchbox — June 29, 2007 @ 7:44 am

  5. site "Maintenance" happen all the time with all website

    Comment by Angela — June 29, 2007 @ 8:19 am

  6. site “Maintenance” happen all the time with all website

    Comment by Angela — June 29, 2007 @ 12:19 pm

  7. I have the same problem! The weird thing is, I am the ONLY one with the problem. My friends and family are logging on without any difficulty but when they try to click on my profile it comes up as a big question mark with no content. Why would I be singled out like this? I am getting paranoid…

    Comment by Sacha — July 31, 2007 @ 3:12 am

  8. I have the same problem! The weird thing is, I am the ONLY one with the problem. My friends and family are logging on without any difficulty but when they try to click on my profile it comes up as a big question mark with no content. Why would I be singled out like this? I am getting paranoid…

    Comment by Sacha — July 31, 2007 @ 7:12 am

  9. Yeah, i have the same problem, people are sending me messages and I'm the only one not able to log on, but I'm not getting paranoid ;p

    Comment by Pras — August 14, 2007 @ 12:36 pm

  10. Yeah, i have the same problem, people are sending me messages and I'm the only one not able to log on, but I'm not getting paranoid ;p

    Comment by Pras — August 14, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

  11. I have been getting that error message since Wednesday and it's Sunday now. I've emailed about 6 times. The 1st two times I received an auto-responder that says their working on it and should be back with me soon. I haven't even received an auto-responder to the other emails. Guess they don't even bother to send an auto-responder if you write to them more than once or twice. Everyone else that I know is not having problems signing in. Wonder why I can't sign in…. BTW, if you have a problem, and would like an auto-responder message, you can email them at login@facebook.com or info@facebook.com. I tried to call their "tech support" at 650-543-4800, but they wouldn't help me and told me to send an email to info@facebook.com. Hope this helps someone when they are in the same position I'm in.

    Comment by Hope — August 26, 2007 @ 5:58 am

  12. I have been getting that error message since Wednesday and it's Sunday now. I've emailed about 6 times. The 1st two times I received an auto-responder that says their working on it and should be back with me soon. I haven't even received an auto-responder to the other emails. Guess they don't even bother to send an auto-responder if you write to them more than once or twice. Everyone else that I know is not having problems signing in. Wonder why I can't sign in…. BTW, if you have a problem, and would like an auto-responder message, you can email them at login@facebook.com or info@facebook.com. I tried to call their "tech support" at 650-543-4800, but they wouldn't help me and told me to send an email to info@facebook.com. Hope this helps someone when they are in the same position I'm in.

    Comment by Hope — August 26, 2007 @ 6:58 am

  13. What the hell is going down with facebook. This is a joke. I've lost all my contacts. Get your act together!!!

    Comment by Mary Susan Franklin — October 4, 2008 @ 10:44 am

  14. I used my my phone 2 download da m.facebook.com bt i did get da password and nw i cnt log in plz help guys.

    Comment by Nthabiseng — March 5, 2009 @ 6:21 am

  15. I have lost my password as it was supposed to be stored. I keep asking for a new password, but I NEED a link that I can CLICK ON…. PLEASE!!!!!!!

    Comment by john — June 15, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

  16. You deleted my account!!! Totally Disabled it!!!! Why? I wasn't spamming…I wasn't running a business…it was personal. I was playing a GAME!!!! I invested a ton of money into Mafia Wars, and I'm not even talking about the time I spent downloading pics of my kids, friends..etc. Or how about the all the time I spent on the game that YOUR website has on it…and you deleted my account for it when others have many more friends or players than I do!!! GEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!

    Comment by Lory LaRochelle — June 16, 2009 @ 3:33 pm

  17. facebook a uye olacakt?m ama engellenm?? msn adresim neden anlamad?m sorunu g?derebilirmisiniz

    Comment by ?erife — August 12, 2009 @ 9:57 am

  18. so do i! i had never sent a spam to anyone, i'd never use my status to advertising anything, and last time i checked : im a human (based from 10th point 'why your facebook account is deactivated'). but all i have is a suck announcement

    Comment by phy — September 1, 2009 @ 2:13 am

  19. its so weird ive read all the statements and totally relate im the only one havin this prob i checked my email n i had notifications of others tryin to reach me and i cudnt respond its so annoyin!!!! i hope im able to log in by 2morrow….but i was just there to keep in touch with friends and fam so im sad now!!!!!!it sucks

    Comment by p — September 7, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

  20. hello guys… when i opened this message, the year is 2009..you guys wrote this on 2007, but just about right now i have a problem like you.

    why do FACEBOOK doesn't fixed their maintanance at 2007???

    i do have a blog on facebook to write on.

    if it keep happen and happen again, maybe is the end of facebook glory…

    well, its better that we have to find the other social network site which is more un-"error" as facebook!
    :(

    Comment by bebe — October 1, 2009 @ 11:33 pm

  21. Its funny how facebook says my profile is unavailable due to site maintenence but my partners isn't, whats the deal?

    Comment by zoe lant — October 2, 2009 @ 12:44 am

  22. Same deal. I know I am stone cold dead and all my millions have been stolen on Mafia Wars. LOL I need a life. Maybe this is the Universe saying I need to stay off FB and do something in the real world. Withdrawal angst.

    Comment by Marsha — October 5, 2009 @ 4:41 pm

  23. I havn't been able to log on for three days and with most every support on this goddam earth, facebooks is shit.

    Comment by Joseph — October 6, 2009 @ 12:14 pm

  24. I'm still having this problem, been since saturday night. Its almost wednesday x.x

    Comment by Kasdan — October 6, 2009 @ 7:18 pm

  25. Me too (been under maintenance for four days) but I am glad that I am not alone. I thought they kicked me off for no reason.

    Comment by jeff a — October 7, 2009 @ 6:50 am

  26. Has anyone ever FIX this problem or Got a SOLUTION??? please reply…….

    Comment by Ann — October 7, 2009 @ 10:43 am

  27. yeah, the same here guys.
    i have like, some 987 friends who all want to know something about my band, and WTF guess what, since sat. night, i cant get the FUCK ON!!!!!

    Comment by richard — October 7, 2009 @ 10:14 pm

  28. @kasdan – have you solve your probz? i also got this probz starting last saturday nyt…

    Comment by ray — October 8, 2009 @ 12:53 pm

  29. day 6 finished work early just so fed up! Oh farmville i miss you. As an a pilot i really shd b thinking about my flight but fb is all i think about HELP!!!

    Comment by dyane — October 8, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

  30. I am now on day 6 also..I am so sick of this. Are our accounts ever going to be restored??? Has anyone been able to get back on yet??? And further more I emailed FB about 20 times and never got any responses back…..

    Comment by Teresa — October 9, 2009 @ 12:16 am

  31. guess what, another one who cannot get on, i have 2 acc on facebook, one business and one personal, the business one is working fine, the personal one i cannot log on and get the maintanance message – though it was my computer and did the usual clearing temp files, cache etc but when i log on with other account, no problems

    WISH SOMEONE WOULD GET IT FIXED as all my friends are on my personal one

    Comment by stephanie — October 22, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

  32. wtf…facebook is a piece of s>>T!

    Comment by Rex — October 26, 2009 @ 1:33 am

  33. Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience. THIS IS B.S.!!

    Comment by andi — October 28, 2009 @ 8:08 am

  34. It's February 13, 2010 and I received the site maintenance message while I was still logged in and working in my account! This is crazy!! I can't imagine that my account needs several hours of work. I have pages to update for work!

    What was the outcome of the site maintenance for everyone else?

    When my friends go to my profile, they see that my profile is unavailable. I'm a little upset!

    Comment by karen — February 13, 2010 @ 8:14 am

  35. Today is may 9th 2010 MOTHERS DAY my family live away from and were going to send me wishes on my wall for mothers day. PROBLEM my site is down for maintenance and its 9.05 am and has been down since 10 pm last night. My friends and family can't even get to my profile up its also unavailable due to maintaince. Surely they can get it fixed?

    Comment by wendy ballinger — May 8, 2010 @ 3:05 pm

  36. I am also having the same problem. Has anyone had this happen, and what was the outcome? Were you able to log back on after the site said a few hours? Did they delete your page? I see some of you guys are still waiting after even 6 days?? That is ridiculous… Well in the meantime, GET OUT IN THE WORLD and do something productive, maybe facebook is running our lives in an odd way? They should have a FB anon group nowadays,seriously my teenage kids have to be pried off the comp!

    Comment by Pam — July 8, 2010 @ 7:20 am

  37. I really do not like facebook anymore, it won't let me login anymore, I get the same error message also! I am going to host my own site, I will use tat instead of facebook ..

    Comment by Mikey — November 23, 2010 @ 6:52 pm

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