# Ok, who broke Facebook? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845 "2018-11-20T13:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/1 "2018-11-20T13:00:19Z")
I was doing my morning cruise-through and all of a sudden it blipped and disappeared, and all I have is a blank white screen with a tiny Service Unavailable in the top left corner. Kind of creepy, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/2 "2018-11-20T13:09:19Z")
Facebook has been getting rid of political troll accounts. You know how sometimes it’s easier to burn the house down and rebuild it than it is to find that one spider that runs across your arm in the middle of the night? Well… ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/3 "2018-11-20T13:13:34Z")
Ha! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/4 "2018-11-20T14:23:50Z")
According to [downdetector.com](http://downdetector.com), they’ve been having issues since 7:41 on 11/20. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/5 "2018-11-20T14:37:56Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > According to [downdetector.com](http://downdetector.com), they’ve been having issues since 7:41 on 11/20. Nice site! It’s been down for me too for the most part. I will get a single post from several hours ago and nothing on either sidebar. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/6 "2018-11-20T15:35:59Z")
trolls. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/7 "2018-11-20T18:56:34Z")
It was having issues a couple days ago, too, very late at night. Just kept posting that there was a problem, and that’s all you’d see on the main Wall display. Oddly, if you went to a particular account’s personal Wall, you saw posts just fine. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/8 "2018-11-20T18:56:37Z")
I broke it. You’ll thank me later. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/9 "2018-11-20T19:55:01Z")
> [@morgyn](#): > > it was having issues a couple days ago, too, very late at night. Just kept posting that there was a problem, and that’s all you’d see on the main wall display. there is another system. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/10 "2018-11-20T21:40:21Z")
**cochrane** , can I thank you now? > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > there is another system. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/11 "2018-11-20T22:30:18Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > **cochrane** , can I thank you now? > > Nice. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/12 "2018-11-20T22:43:24Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I broke it. You’ll thank me later. I helped. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/13 "2018-11-21T01:32:06Z")
Probably the NSA installing a “security patch.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/14 "2018-11-21T11:42:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > there is another system. Are you quoting from the old movie _Colossus: The Forbin Project_? A few years after that movie came out I wrote a diagnostic program for mainframes which, upon detecting that it was in a multi-processor configuration, printed “There is another mechanism.” > [@cochrane](#): > > I broke it. You’ll thank me later. I wish this were true. Then I _would_ thank you. If any of you chats with Zuckerberg, please ask him when I’m going to get my Newsfeed back. I want to spend as little time(_) as possible at his site but as is, I have to click on the timelines of all my show-first Friends to see what they’ve posted. (_ Zero time would be fine but even as is I often hear “Our daughter posted on FB almost an hour ago and you still haven’t clicked _Like_. What’s the matter with you!”) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-who-broke-facebook/824845/15 "2018-11-21T13:28:51Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Are you quoting from the old movie _Colossus: The Forbin Project_? A few years after that movie came out I wrote a diagnostic program for mainframes which, upon detecting that it was in a multi-processor configuration, printed “There is another mechanism.” Yes. Cool!