Find Us On Facebook?

Well, not for a couple of hours yesterday, anyway.  (And not me, not ever)  Apropos of the post immediately below this one... several of you Gentle Readers brought it to my attention that FB was down yesterday, as did numerous Tweeters.  Here are two of the best tweets on the subject:

 postsecret: BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession.  (from web, retweeted by cyberwar)

danicrino: DNS FAILURE: Facebook is down which means 9 months from today, many children will born. (from web, retweeted by FlagGazer)

Heh.  I particularly like the first tweet but the second one ain't bad, either.  FB sez it was a database failure that caused the two hour outage.

Related:  Facebook, the movie?  Well, yes.

The super-popular website that you just looked at (and will probably check again once you finish reading this) takes front and center in The Social Network, which early reviews are calling the best movie of the year. The film, written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) and directed by David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), is a partly true, partly fictional retelling of the origins of Facebook by two Harvard students -- one of whom would eventually make billions and leave his friend in the dust. It's a pretty daring idea for a movie, and it could have easily been an awful one. So far, everyone seems to think it's terrific -- but will people really line up to see a movie about Facebook?

To answer the last question... not me, once again.  But 500 million other people MIGHT.