Around 3 pm (EST) on Thursday, Facebook crashed. 'DNS Server Error messages' displayed instead of a homepage and America freaked out. Many people were forced to work and others forced out of work for the two hour and change hiatus. Marty Swan, a 53-year old farmer, complains that he lost "hundreds of thousands of crops" during the blackout. "My Farm on Farmville was decimated by the crash of Facebook. The damage is irreparable. I couldn't harvest my crops....this is harvest time. I really don't know how I will be able to continue on with this for a living now. I've gotta eat and my family does too. This is terrible. I might as well go back to MySpace". Crops weren't the only thing affected by the blackout, the worst since the East Coast blackout in August of 2003, according to Swan.
Sidney Ponson (not the former pitcher from Aruba) said the crash caused a few awkward encounters in the "real world". Ponson, unemployed, but with an active social life said he "friend requested this girl", but had yet to see her response to his request when he ran into her at the local deli during the Facebook crash. "I ran into her at the counter and didn't know if I should talk to her and say Hi, since I didn't know if she ignored my request or if because of the crash she just never saw my friend request. So, I just turned the other way and pretended to read the newspaper. This crash could have cost me a chance to get laid this weekend. Damn, Zuckerberg". Zuckerberg would be the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Others were forced to actually work during Thursday Afternoon's crash. Bill Buehler, a truck driver from Billings, Montana, said he was "forced to pay attention to driving and being safe" on our nation's highways. "I always check out Facebook while on the road, usually while driving. I poke my cousin and poke the woman I'm sleeping with, but yesterday there was none of that. I don't know how some people can do it, man. Driving and just paying attention and stuff. Not for me, man...not for me!".
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