Facebook has been down for hours!!

People will have to start talking to each other in person.

I just went to Facebook and it worked fine.

I can't get on FB. Instagram is working, but it's glitchy.

Both FB and IG are down, apparently, which is kind of strange.

FB doesnt allow me to post, otherwise, it still sucks....

hacked!

The search function on DL isn't working for me. My only option is the archive search, which is not a useful way to find recent threads.

I'm not on facebook, but Instagram seems to have problems right now too. Are they linked?

OK- it's official: Facebook is down (mainly around the U.S. westcoast) and Instagram and whatsapp too (mainly in Western Europe). And DL is very "slow" too. Reddit still works but you never know... Let me just say: I'll miss you all. It was nice here and I've spent here many happy years.😥 😙 😪👋👋

IS IT THE RUSSIANS???

It works alright for me.

My Insta is back up, Facebook still not working.

I fucking hope it will be down for eternity ... you morons need to find something more meaningful to fill your life with ...

Europe here - Facebook and Instagram still both down for me.

Actually, I do suspect Kremlin-sourced hacking, as it happens. That was what it was last time. Interesting that happened at the same hour as the NY Manafort indictments.

Instagram is being temperamental too.

Facebook says it's down for "maintenance", although I've gotten an error message too.

Facebook and IG have been down for a few hours from what I can tell. I'm in Italy. Santo cielo!

This site is being glitchy as well.

Test.

R19 oops sorry.

No worries everyone, we're just transmitting all your data and browser data to a group of undisclosed shadowy 3rd parties for analysis and offsite storage.

Thank you for your patience.

What I find interesting is that Facebook is completely downplaying the scope of this and acting like no big deal. They've been down for hours in major urban areas and countries.

Gmail and Google Docs were down last night, though most people didn't notice...

It was today European time, R23. And YouTube was down too.

Something Wicked This Way Comes!

"FACEBOOK NEVER GOES DOWN!!

Wow

No WW allowed for me

And you're wasting your time on Datalounge, hypocritical bitch at R13.

Pipe the fuck down.

FB owns insta and whatsapp. all 3 will be combined in the near future.

Many websites are affected today—not Twitter though for some reason.

Kurt Eichenwald had a thread a bit ago on there cataloging all the sites experiencing this difficulty. Even the US Postal Service site.

The end is near....someone hold me!

Etsy was down too.

This has to be Russia - they just don't want more bad news about Russia hacking all your Facebook data.

Post pictures of what you had for lunch.....I can't get through the day unless I see those photos.

DL has been acting weird all day. Dont tell me Aunt Becky's Desperate Housewives College Cheating Scandal of the 21st and a half Century has broke the internet gurl!

It's not a coincidence all these sites have had problems. I wonder who's responsible and what they're up to.

Could be the Chinese.

Also CIA was involved in some kind of break in to N.Korea's office in Madrid last month where computers were stolen. Maybe it's revenge. N. Korea has lots of hackers. They hacked themselves a lot of money last year.

I hope FB is down forever. Fb Sucks.

Cyber-terrorist attack. Russia, perhaps?

Fb's system crashed coz they were busy downloading and selling our private data to other countries.

It's a HACK. they have never "maintained" their website for so long.

They're trying to get all the nudes...go to work hackers!

I think twitter is getting slower too.

Facebook definitely sucks. I think the worst thing about it is all the laugh-emoji reactions from Trump trolls and their stupid “two years and still no collusion” comments. Total fucking morons. I get my news fastest through Facebook, just by following all the important news outlets and certain journalists on there, but the comments and the emoji reactions and the blissful ignorance with which the Trumptards flood it make it an agonizing experience. God only knows why I haven’t deleted it.

It will be fun to see the withdrawal symptoms of social media addicts.

Dear god, in the end will the only interactive medium left be datalounge and the Guardian sex advice column comments section???!!!!

Why are you seeing rightwing tRump turds, R44? Punch and delete, as the ancient DL saying goes.

Full House fans going on a rampage against the Internet

BREAKING: Huffman and Loughlin paid someone off to take IG down so that people would stop saying bad things to their daughters.

Because there are literally hundreds and hundreds of them, R47.

I wish I could just see the postings of the news articles without any of the likes, laughs, dislikes, love, etc. below it, but Facebook forces you to see at least the overview of the reactions.

R49 that is funny, but actually probably true. Love it.

[quote]Facebook definitely sucks.

That's nice. Meanwhile many of us use Facebook as a man marketing effort. It's one of my main supports for a side business that grosses over $100,000 a year. So laugh it up, furball.

OMG not a [bold]man[/bold] marketing effort, a MAIN marketing effort!

LOL!!!

I didn't think anyone would be mocked for refusing to have their personal data harvested, commoditized and sold [bold]without monetary benefit[/bold], until I read OP.

I've read from some people that their relatives act like assholes on Facebook although they don't appear to be assholes in real life. Anonymity and pseudonymity don't factor into the antagonistic behavior.

DL was down too, or at least gave me a Posting Error message when I tried to hit post. Looks all normal now, but had to re-login and lost all my threads.

Always, starting from scratch, bitches!

DL had a weird soft primetime thing going on with the search function disabled. I went for a nap and there's been an explosion of replies in some threads now.

I'm so confused right now. do I even exist?

Does anyone really think its a coincidence the Internet goes down just as the mugshots for Loughlin and Huffman are to be posted? The Hallmark army is ruthless.

Is DL owned by Facebook? why were both sites down at the same time?

It was the Russian prostitutes thread that angered the trolls and broke the Datalounge.

Mark Zuckerberg is doing this shit on purpose to passive aggressively counteract all the flack he’s been getting from politicians. He wants to show the world what it would be like to go without Facebook and Instagram. This is a message, an ultimatum to the world: either get off his back or he’s shutting everything down for good.

R52 you sound like a bottom-feeder. Good luck selling your crap!

Lesbians certainly had nothing to do with this!

Sorry you are going through this crisis, but the OP comments about dl'ers being too elderly to be facebook users doesn't mesh with my impression that facebook's largest cabal of users ARE old people.

Mark Zuckerberg is a madman, a megalomaniac who’s terrorizing the world right now in order to deliver a message. He believes we’ve taken Facebook for granted. He wants us to know what it would feel like if he took it all away.

It personally would not bother me a bit, R65. But I do understand that some people use it for business purposes and that would be unfortunate for them.

r65 your conspiracy theory attempts could use a bit more work.

Yes, my mistake R64. We're all ancient doyennes tapping away like Miss Havisham with a laptop.

As for the Man Marketing (funny typo, we like it), R52, good luck. I have business pals who buy Facebook ads and mostly note a 2% click-through rate; not worth the money. FB also lies in their stats to advertisers, then deliberately hides non-paid posts to make you want to buy more ads. It's a massive shell game.

r65 is a Russian troll trying to shift the blame to hated Mark Zuckerburg.

Nope, this has Russia all over it.

Definitely hackers. I hope you guys didn't link your phone or credit cards to the site.

FB down ... my life has got no sense of purpose anymore!

Given how much it's borking other things, I doubt it's just Facebook. Probably some backend somewhere.

[quote][R52] you sound like a bottom-feeder. Good luck selling your crap!

Thank you!

FB is kind of back to normal for me now. How about IG?

They are still borked for me on the West Coast. Takes forever to load.

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Thank God is back again .... I have thought my life was over ...

It's not back for many. Now going on 6 hours....

not back for me, i'm on the east coast

Mine now says "account temporarily unavailable due to a site issue." Nothing, nada, zip.

Also note that Russia (and China) seems to be free of any Facebook disruption. Gee, that's a coincidence.

This is a the longest they have ever been down and I bet it's costing them a fortune. Not to worry, they have the dough, but still.

I couldn't post five minutes ago message was "Try Again"

FB is not allowed in China.

BREAKING: Facebook is under criminal investigation for sharing your data with other tech companies without your approval or knowledge.

Bad day for Mark and Sheryl

R84, excellent. Fucking cunt! I fucking hate him and his Chinese spy wife! I have an account to keep in touch with relatives overseas but I don't link it to anything.

IG is working for me except for that section with the heart where you see who's liking your pics and stuff; it's completely blank.

It's working intermittently for me. Getting a lot of "Oops, an error occurred".

I cannot post. Its all messed up. NOT a conspiracy guy, BUT feels like a test run, no?

I worked for a streaming internet company and an outage that lasted this long would be a disaster. This has nothing to do with a feature release that went wrong or anything internal. Facebook is WAYYYYY too careful for that. This is a malicious attack, even if they don't want to admit it. They may not want to comment until they can say for sure where it is coming from. But It's very strange that they have had little comment all day long and act almost as if this was planned.

Definitely an attack.

I like the cat in OP's picture. Since FB is down, the cat is busy ordering treats on Amazon.

This is definitely Aunt-Becky-related.

Maybe Lori Loughlin's daughter, the ungrateful 19 year old brat at USC, did something to crash Insta and FB while removing her unfortunate video where she said she was only there for party days and didn't even care about school. Maybe she hired a hacker?

Could aliens be involved?

Where do I post a picture of today's lunch? This isn't fair!

Yesterday I had to uninstall my Google Chrome - the fonts were all jacked, like they were fading away or something. I will reinstall it tonight and see what happens.

….and Facebook is STILL down, at least for me.

same

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@ABC7

9 minutes ago

Facebook is still down. But hey, you can still get all your news here:

FB is working for me but glitchy. You have to click “like”’or “love” or “haha” several times to get it to stick.

IG is not really working much at all.

R102, are you in the USA?

Zuckerberg wants you to know what a world without Facebook could be. He’s demonstrating his power over us all. Zuck giveth and Zuck can taketh away.

@yo

Facebook AND Instagram are down...

MySpace, it's your chance to make a comeback!

Yes R103.

This is most likely an attack. A group of social media platforms all having the same problem and lasting hours.

Maybe I am punchdrunk from work. But R92 has me shaking with laughter right now.

"Since FB is down, the cat is busy ordering treats on Amazon."

How can I judge people if I can't see them?

Kind of love it. It's giving us a feel of life without it.

Nutball qanons think it's all about THEM and the suppression of THEIR speech. These are the same people who keep expecting mass round ups and arrests of "deep state" figures including prominent journalists, academics, current and former government officials, libruls, etc., etc.

Is working in New Zealand

someone posted on reddit :

I work for an IT security firm that supports major companies across NA.

Google had an attack overseas last night / this morning around 12:30-330am EST And now Facebook is being targeted.

They will be releasing a formal statement when their investigation is conclusive but this appears to be a eastern sourced attack on various American tech companies.

It's extremely complex, and won't get into details.

From all the support I've been giving, it seems that this is a coordinated assualt on Worldwide American infrastructure, but I don't state any governments and companies possibly responsible for this.

I would not be surprised if this leads to counter warfare.

R114, was the Reddit poster OP's cat?

Wow...this is like the blackout of '65.

I wonder if they'll be an uptick in births 9 months from now.

Can also confirm it’s working now in New Zealand. But then again we do live in the future.

Stilll fucked up. I'm going crazy without my Liza Minnelli FB club today :(

it's working for me now, i'm on the east coast

To whoever brought down this sinister corporation I say to say CONGRATULATIONS on behalf of humankind

[quote]Where do I post a picture of today's lunch?

Up your ass, of course.

Perhaps somehow related to Venezuela and the apparent clash between the US and Russia like in the olden days...

Fb and ig both now ok here East Coast Australia.

Oh well then PROBLEM SOLVED

[quote]Does anyone really think its a coincidence the Internet goes down just as the mugshots for Loughlin and Huffman are to be posted? The Hallmark army is ruthless.

I know someone at Hallmark. I don't think they are that organized. :-)

Careful, R124 - you sound like an uptight bitter queen in his mother’s basement in a square state, unable to engage with other people because he’s so rancid.

Enjoy your life, as much as you can!

[quote]MySpace, it's your chance to make a comeback!

It's MY turn, bitches!

I don't use Facebook that much, but sometimes I post when I'm on a trip or going to someplace interesting locally. Today I was on one such local trip, and I had endless problems trying to post from my phone (in California.) Couldn't post, or reply to posts, or send messages via Messenger. But I could read posts, and see what I'd posted earlier. Very frustrating. Because I was in a remote area, I originally blamed the problem on bad cell service--but when everything else was working OK, I figured out it was just FB.

R124, R123 here - the reason why I posted is not because I think that my access is important to anyone but me, but because, having a professional understanding of how global I.T. outages work, I know that the fixes are rolled out in waves. These are often based on “time zones” - being American, this may be a foreign concept to you.

As I’m currently working on the east coast of Australia I’m in roughly the same time zone as a couple of the largest metropolitan conurbations in the world - Tokyo/Yokohama in Japan population 40 million and the Pearl River delta (Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong and Macau) in China population 60 million.

The outage impacted us at the start of the working day here (see time zones above) so it may be interesting for those of us of working in the region and who have an understanding of the technical concepts (not you, obviously!) to see its resolution as it rolls across the globe.

Keep smiling R124!

I am just running from room to room SCREAMING at the top of my voice as a concerned gay man.

I wanna "like" this ciber attack, where I should go?

[quote]"FACEBOOK NEVER GOES DOWN!!

Just like my wife!

[quote]I am just running from room to room SCREAMING at the top of my voice as a concerned gay man.

This made me guffaw on my daybed, and it’s much too late at night for that kind of laughter.

Russian trolls famously used FB to launch propaganda attacks during the 2016 campaign that may have been the single biggest reason Trump won. Less than 12 hours after Paul Manafort - the Trumpist with by far the most *known* associates in Russia - was sentenced (for a second time), FB goes down. Coincidence?

R114, that doesn't surprise me -- I had an issue with Gmail not working around that time and when FB and IG went down several hours later, I wondered if the two things were related.

Omg.

R136, Dyatlov, I’m assuming?

R137: haha for sure.

They say it’s back...

DL broke down on me yesterday.

Oh, that's too bad.

Youtube has been signing me out.

Working.

I didn't even know, until I saw it on the news this am. Rarely go on it.

Do not panic! We know Facebook and Instagram are currently down, but we have trained to get you through this. For those in Insta withdrawal:

“Thought I looked cute, might delete later.”

What I find really strange is that both Google and Facebook are being so quiet about what happened. Let's be real here - this was a major attack on them. Facebook's longest outage EVER (where they likely lost millions of dollars in advertising) and they have nothing to say about it????

They must be kind of scared that it was so easy to do and it literally took them hours on end to fix.

I look forward to a weeks-long blackout. Just to see the people freak out.

Still can't WW

I’d love it if I woke up tomorrow and there was no more FB & Insta. People should have to get their own separate websites to spew their shit and sell us crap on.

DL search is down again...I bet the Hearties are behind this

Whatever advertising we may have lost in the outage will be made up (and then some!) by the payoffs we get for harvesting user data yesterday.

Don't cry for us, suckers.

Yesterday's Russian hack of Facebook and Gmail seems to have taken down DL's search function, as well.

Oh, no! Duplicate Housewife Whores threads! The horror!

So Facebook has not divulged anything beyond it was not an attack - it was a server configuration error.

Do you think they owe us more than that?

So what has happened to DL?

DL has a search engine? Never worked for me...never.

It's been infiltrated by right-wing and Russian trolls. But that was over three years ago.

I read only 2 days ago that they were going to "out" the country of origin for every FB group. Perhaps they were so stunned by the number of hate groups based in Moscow, they just pulled their own plug before getting rid of them.

doubtful, but...

I love that kitty cat, Miss OP. Good choice!

Oops. What a coincidence!

Too long. So in a few words what's going on? R160

THR ENTIRE INTERNET WENT OUT YESTERDAY BUT NOT A WORD ABOUT IT TODAY?

R148 r155 did your DL break? Mine did, yesterday. But it came back last night.

Mine is back now.

R92 is still my favorite: "Since FB is down, the cat is busy ordering treats on Amazon. "

so many they got rid of evidence in that outage?

You could not post, WW, or start a thread on DL - Wednesday, March 13, about 3-6 p.m. ET

Burn Facebook/ Instagram, burn it to the ground.

Same here, r167. Was that Mark and Sheryl's fault?

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Oh, yes. A planet millions of miles away effects computer servers. Astrology fools are worse than fundamentalist Christians.

I don't think so. Christians used to burn us alive and that desire to kill us lives on in their minds R172

... and in their hands and guns.

Exactly. The only thing that stops western christians from killing us again is the law. In Africa, christians are actively killing homosexual people.

Sure because all Facebook is good for is to share stupid selfies, never mind the millions of small businesses depending on the platform to survive.

Eldergays here have no fucking clue how the modern world operates, it's unnerving.

Eldergays CREATED the internet, you feckless cunt crumb.

r176 Facebook changing its ad algorithms after the 2016 election shuttered a lot of businesses.

One thing we "olds" know, feckless cunt crumb R176, is FB's malevolent influence on humanity.

You, being a sociopath, will never understand.