I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

OH NOES MY FACEBOOKS IS BROKED

Com on own up, who was it. We won't throw rotten fruit at you honest :)

...the world has not ended. Yet.

I have noticed a sudden upsurge in productivity in our office this afternoon though, now I know why.

Atleast is stops me playing packrat...I can get back to work now until it's fixed

Or maybe I'll just read The Register cover to cover.

Work is for wimps

Seriously?

Hilton, because who cares what she's up to either...

Oh no what are we to do, our lives are over, this is the end.

Maybe we could learn to live our lives, interact face to face learn to venture outside and communicate?

Nah just wait till it's back up!

Could "gone to the zoo" replace "outage" in all IT-related announcements, please? It would brighten up my day no end...

Nice...

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Companies probably saw the productivity jump up in percentage terms since the outtage.

Mines the coat, you know the thing you use to go outside every once in a while.

Or maybe they've come to their senses and closed it. They're thinking about developing real software, but aren't sure yet.

Now, leave me be, I've got to update my Twitter and MySpace accounts.

as Senor Beavis said, please Ctrl+H all articles from now on.

Muchas gracias!

I second this as a new euphamism for outage etc.

As in "sorry, but the database server's gone to the zoo".

OK, I admit, there is (perhaps) a tentative IT angle on this "story", but seriously, where the hell is the NEWS ANGLE? Chav Central is offline, whoop-de-doo - who cares (except the Chav's of course!)??

Now I have to actually *talk* to my friends :(

...is this good or bad news?

stop, for obvious reason.

Some of the people in our office might actually get some work done now... (slim hope).

"Could "gone to the zoo" replace "outage" "

I second that. Add it to the lexicon.

Seems I can access facebook from the .com, never tried to use a .co.uk before, but I just get a directory listing with a php.ini and a (403) cgi-bin folder.

I imagine a trip to the zoo is not far off a customer survey for facebook.

Works fine for me. Problem must be at your end..

I had one really-working-but-trying-to-get-on-facebook user say to me she couldn't get on facebook - she thought the MD had asked our IT manager (my boss) to block facebook!

Well, All our new employees contact me to ask why when they visit FB they get 'Request Blocked by Webblocker'

And I just say "Really... Complain up the chain"

Bloody IT Policy makers!

Thank god for remote access to my home pc! :D

but then I realised that El Reg and B3ta were still up, so no worries on that front

I found that too. Uninstalling Adblock plus seemed to fix it!

It's back.

Like Paris then, can't get rid of her

I third/fourth the motion to refer to all outages as "Going to the Zoo". For what it's worth, FB mobile seems to be working as normal, and by that I mean it's unreliable, and every so often decides that you've got no friends

All that's left is to google google and we can totally break the Intarwebnets!

BRB, server's gone to the zoo..