Facebook shutting down?

Did you received a message from your friend that Facebook is shutting down? Initial reaction would be of course, download tons of pictures and videos uploaded to your Facbook account and probably permanently delete your account.

That's absurd. Here's an excerpt of the news posted at Weekly World News.

PALO ALTO, CA –Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March. Managing the site has become too stressful.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts.

“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.”

It may sound too good to be true, ah? Well, don't carried away immediately because it's obviously an Internet hoax. There have been so many Internet hoax spreads like a wild fire last year, just like the news that  Justin Bieber, A Disguised 51 Year Old Pedophile.

Facebook apologized for its DNS Error

Perhaps the 500 million users overloaded the hardware facilities which resulted to Facebook DNS Error today. Facebook has never experience the similar error in the past four years of its existence as posted from their Notes wall.


This is the worst outage we’ve had in over four years, and we wanted to first of all apologize for it.

Facebook went to outage for about two and half hours on Thursday. According to Robert Johnson of Facebook, The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition. An automated system for verifying configuration values ended up causing much more damage than it fixed.

To address the problem, the site temporarily turned off by Facebook to stop all transactions to the database in which "Facebook DNS Error" showed to the Facebook.

The way to stop the feedback cycle was quite painful - we had to stop all traffic to this database cluster, which meant turning off the site. Once the databases had recovered and the root cause had been fixed, we slowly allowed more people back onto the site.

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What is DNS? DNS or Domain name system is a naming system designed to simplify and designate a human-friendly name of the address designated to a certain web address. For instance, Facebook.com here in my area is accessible at http://69.63.189.16/, instead of accessing it through that address or remembering that block of numbers each time I visit the site, I would simply type Facebook.com to my browser.

When does DNS Error happens? DNS error happens when for example Facebook which is supposedly accessible to a given address was made or accidentally made inaccessible. A simpler example is, I turned off my computer or it's busted which is supposedly accessible to a certain ip address mapped onto it.

Facebook apologized for its DNS Error

Perhaps the 500 million users overloaded the hardware facilities which resulted to Facebook DNS Error today. Facebook has never experience the similar error in the past four years of its existence as posted from their Notes wall.


This is the worst outage we’ve had in over four years, and we wanted to first of all apologize for it.

Facebook went to outage for about two and half hours on Thursday. According to Robert Johnson of Facebook, The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition. An automated system for verifying configuration values ended up causing much more damage than it fixed.

To address the problem, the site temporarily turned off by Facebook to stop all transactions to the database in which "Facebook DNS Error" showed to the Facebook.

The way to stop the feedback cycle was quite painful - we had to stop all traffic to this database cluster, which meant turning off the site. Once the databases had recovered and the root cause had been fixed, we slowly allowed more people back onto the site.

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What is DNS? DNS or Domain name system is a naming system designed to simplify and designate a human-friendly name of the address designated to a certain web address. For instance, Facebook.com here in my area is accessible at http://69.63.189.16/, instead of accessing it through that address or remembering that block of numbers each time I visit the site, I would simply type Facebook.com to my browser.

When does DNS Error happens? DNS error happens when for example Facebook which is supposedly accessible to a given address was made or accidentally made inaccessible. A simpler example is, I turned off my computer or it's busted which is supposedly accessible to a certain ip address mapped onto it.

500M Facebook users, ready to answer your Facebook Questions

The giant social networking site Facebook is cooking the latest feature named Facebook Questions (Still in Beta).


500M Facebook users, ready to answer your Questions. Yes that's right! 500M Facebook users might be answering your question. I could compare this Twitter and Plurk but the difference is, your question is publicly seen by the said number of users. Unlike in two popular micro-blogging site, your status or question only available to your followers.

Well, it's not really the two micro-blogging sites Facebook's trying to compete but rather Yahoo! answers.

Here's a bit of information from Facbook's Blog.

Ask Anything, Get Quality Answers

Facebook Questions helps you tap into the collective knowledge of the more than 500 million people on Facebook. For example, if you're vacationing in Costa Rica and want to know the best places to surf, you can use Facebook Questions to get answers from nearby surfing enthusiasts. Because questions will also appear to your friends and their friends, you'll receive answers that are more personalized to you.


To ask a question to the community, just click the "Ask Question" button at the top of the homepage. You can also ask questions about your friends from their profiles, similarly to how you would post on their Walls.

Faceboook login

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Ark and I has been experimenting SEO in the past few days. He has been sharing a lot of his knowledge pertaining to SEO. In his first optimized keyword about faceboook was facebok which is now at first page of Google search result. He gave me a keyword to also work out on which was facbook (hope would stay quite long at Google SERP). Now, I'm experimenting again the keyword faceboook.

If you think you're lost or looking for the most popular social network nowadays you visit the official site of Facebook here.

Facebook login

Wanted to login to your Facebook account? As we all know Facebook is the worlds number one social networking utility we have over the internet.

If you want to login, you can check Facebook login page .

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Penpal : Looking for penpal?

I wonder if penpal is still in today. It depends on ones definition of penpal, as observed today, only few would bother to write a lengthy of paragraphs in a paper.

What is Pen pal ? A person with whom one becomes acquainted through a friendly, regular correspondence. Source: Answer.com

 In a technology today, getting acquainted to a person can be in many medium. It could be cellular phone, email, chat, or popular social networking sites like Facbook.

I remember way back in high school, people also get acquainted by two-way radios. Another form of media for socializing which didn't last that long in my opinion.   But for some of us during those days write letters to other schools to meet new friends. Philippine Post Office conducted seminar to encourage us to write letters and have friends from other schools. Unfortunately, I think none of us tried to.

What's the difference of penpal or online friends today? Ideally, none. But in speed of correspondence or let say connection, the difference could be a million miles really. It's beyond compare to what we have before. Mail from a post office is usually called as "Snail Mail", now who would like to receive a mail that will be received for a month or two. Who would want to full their garbage bin in a whole night just writing a letter?

Writing in a sheet of paper a way cheaper than typing in a computer using your keyboard.

Facbook Login/Join

In my post Friendster will be closing soon, I mentioned that Facbook is becoming more popular each today.

Globally in Alexa top 500 sites, Facbook is still number two while number one in Philippines. Top sites in Philippines haven't change a lot but noticeably Friendster dropped down from number three to six.

Why join Facbook? What I really like most is connecting with family, friends, relatives, ex-classmates, neighbor is so easy, with the help of Suggestions corner. There's also a Family Link application wherein you can tag your friend as your relative, say cousin. If your cousin will add new relative, you will also be notified and check if you're related to that person added by your cousin.

Actually, there are a lot more of stuff you'll enjoy with Facbook. If you want to join you can visit the site www.facebook.com.