Can’t Talk ON Facebook? Just Talk ABOUT it.

Posted October 14th, 2009 by Jenn's Tech Tips

UPDATE 10/14/09 6PM CENTRAL: Nope…still down:

Account Unavailable

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

That describes much of my week…more than a week, actually. Since October 3rd, due to a reported apparent database failure, approximately 150K of Facebook’s 300M users have been experiencing serious access issues. “Lucky” me – I was one of the 150K.

Some folks decided to vent on Twitter, and reported not being able to access their accounts at all. I was able to get on sporadically. On some days, I could access my home page, but not my friends’ feeds. On other days I had to try several times to just get on to my own feed – after being told several times that my account was down for site maintenance and to try again in a few hours. For minutes at a time on some days, I was able to access everything. Occassionally my entire friends list (nearly 3,000 people) simply disappeared; other times, it appeared that certain friends had “un-friended” me, but then the problem would clear up in a couple of hours. This has gone on for over 10 days, now.

It’s been quite exasperating. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, Facebook is a tiny blip on the radar, but it has become my primary spot for networking with fellow conservative activists. The most recent reports as of today are that the problem has cleared up, and Facebook is not being specific (probably for security reasons) about exactly what was wrong. Hopefully, after over 10 days, the fix is permanent.

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2 Responses to “Can’t Talk ON Facebook? Just Talk ABOUT it.”

  1. Rosemary
    October 15th, 2009 - 2:43 am

    I got in to comment. Are you sure…oh, wait a minute. I see this is at your orininal site and not facebook. How’d you do that when I click on facebook? Hmm…weird! ;)

  2. rickmatheny
    October 20th, 2009 - 8:06 pm

    It’s oct 20 and I’m having the same problem as you, but mine only recently surfaced in the last week or so.