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"Facebook, the Internet's social engine that never seems to sputter, experienced a few short minutes of downtime on Thursday, starting just before 2 p.m. EST. Instead of being greeted with the usual deluge of timelines, newsfeeds, status updates and baby photos, many Facebook users saw blank white pages. No error message or 404 page, just blank white nothingess. \nPredictably, this momentary lack of social noise and conversation caused many web dwellers to nearly lose control of motor and intellectual function for a few terrifying minutes. Also predictably \u2014 as is the case for anything that happens on the Internet ever \u2014 the momentary outage led to a fun few minutes of quips and snark on that other social network, Twitter. \nWe've emailed Facebook for comment on the downtime, but have not yet heard back. In the meantime, in case you missed the Facebook freak out party, these tweets will give you an idea of the social micro-zeitgeist:\n1. \n\nEvery tech writer is about to say... \"Facebook is down\" in 3, 2, 1...\n\u2014 Samantha Murphy (@MurphySamanthaJ) November 8, 2012\n\n2. \n\nNOW'S YOUR CHANCE, GOOGLE+ RT @smkeyes: SOUND THE ALARMS: Facebook is down.\n\u2014 Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) November 8, 2012\n\n3.  \n\nIs facebook down? Not that our entire office is trying to look at it.\n\u2014 Elise Foley (@elisefoley) November 8, 2012\n\n4. \n\nGuys, breath. Facebook was down for less time than it took to load my Myspace page in '05. It's gonna be OK.\n\u2014 Kirsten Stubbs (@kirstenstubbs) November 8, 2012\n\n 5.  \n\nFacebook is back up. You can stop pretending to work now.\n\u2014 Lisa Barone (@LisaBarone) November 8, 2012\n\n6. \n\nI bet we all got SO much done w/ our lives when Facebook was down for those few minutes... like hitting the refresh button until it was back\n\u2014 Jenny Driessen (@jennydriessen) November 8, 2012\n\n7. \n\nFinally facebook is back to normal. People posting music , pics of ugly babies, and pics of food.. This was very much missed...\n\u2014 Mary Ogeda(@MarySilvas1) November 8, 2012\n\n8.\n\nI hate not being on Facebook, because I keep hoping and hoping he'll message me back. This is bad ;(\n\u2014 Alexis ^-^(@InLoveWithTupac) November 8, 2012\n\n9. \n\nCrisis averted, #Facebook is back up.\n\u2014 Tim Akimoff (@timakimoff) November 8, 2012\n\n10. \n\nFacebook is back. #obamasamerica\n\u2014 Scott Keyes (@smkeyes) November 8, 2012\n\nHow did you spend Facebook's brief downtime? Share your horror stories with us in the comments.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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