This morning I was trying to log onto Facebook, the site was just not loading – although I usually assume they are having techy issues and I would go back to it later, my curiosity got the best of me. I Googled – ‘Facebook is down’ to see if it was a bigger issue than I thought.
Although I did not find any permanent errors or huge news stories about Facebook being offline – thank goodness – I DID find this site: downrightnow.com. It shows the status of some of the most popular sites on the web and their current on-line or off-line status.
With Facebook in this case it said ‘ Likely Service Disruption’ it left me feeling like I still didn’t know what was going on, but at least I was comforted by the fact that it was not just my computer unable to connect to Facebook!
They even have a blog that discussed their ‘down’ findings and puts some words of wisdom out there for concerned web surfers.
I guess Unitz LLC – the company who developed this is thinking outside of the box – its almost like an app for web, something helpful in the case that you are feeling stranded on the web. I do feel better knowing that is is a known issue, but I still can not get on facebook – so it is not a problem fixer, just nosey informer. (which I love!)
