On Thursday, Facebook experienced an outage for 2 ½ hours due to a glitch in the social media network’s database software. There were messages flying around the social network that the site was compromised by a group of hackers. The site was not hacked in anyway shape or form.Facebook Outage

Facebook users were outraged yesterday because of how long the site was down before it was accessible again. The issue I have is why anyone would be so angry and upset just because you were unable to post messages or share a photos? The only people that should be upset are advertisers who count on FB to generate traffic to their respected businesses.

The outage could be looked at as a good thing, because it gives people a break from the digital space and maybe during that time you did something more productive, maybe.

The addiction is incredible and I am sure that Facebook loves this and why not. They are becoming the mainstay and they’re beginning to rival Google and Microsoft in some areas.

Facebook is great, but it will not solve World hunger. To me, it’s another fad that has gone from a dorm room to a college campus and now global. It’s a phenomenon on how fast this social giant has grown, but all good things never last forever.

The biggest concern users should have with Facebook, is not how long an outage occurred, but the ongoing phishing scams that pop up on Facebook almost every week. Cyber criminals love FB, because of its rich user base (500 million) and they know a good percentage of its members will fall for scams.

Be careful and stop sweating the small stuff.