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Facebook
is the world’s most popular social networking site. Over the years it
has expanded even more and today it ranks among the most visited
websites in the world. With billions of registered users something is
bound to go wrong at any time. In a recent event, Facebook temporally
hijacked the cyber world. This took place Thursday afternoon and lasted
for about an hour.
Websites that use Facebook integrations
were dragged from their landing pages to the Facebook error web page. If
you were logged into Facebook and tried accessing other websites at the
same time you were taken to a Facebook error page. Fox News, Gawker,
Washington Post, Yahoo! and Slickdeals were among the numerous websites
affected by the mysterious bug. However, those who weren’t logged into
Facebook did not receive this error.
This was a huge surprise to all users as they couldn’t access other
websites but were instead taken to a Facebook error page. According to
reports the problem was with the Facebook’s Connect
service, which governs “likes,” “comments” and other Web-based
features. Facebook declined to reveal the elements of the error, but
gave a statement to NBC news regarding the situation. They said, “For a
short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people from third
party sites with Facebook Login to Facebook.com. The issue was quickly
resolved.”
Users were not pleased and vented out their frustration on Twitter
and other online messaging forums. They said that it was disturbing that
Facebook could hijack the Internet even if it was unintentional. Some
people said that it was good that the error was resolved instantly or
else the affected sites would have intervened themselves by disabling
the widgets. Although the problem was fixed immediately, you can still
expect a proper apology from Facebook in the future once they figure out
what went wrong.
