College Students Learn Meaning of Facebook Withdrawal

Facebook Attributes Outage to Technical Glitch

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

College students across the nation had to deal with a devastating loss Tuesday as Facebook was forced to shutdown all operations of the social networking Web site to repair a technical glitch.

Many woke up Tuesday morning to find they could read messages in other user's inboxes on the site. After realizing the problem, Facebook immediately shutdown user access to the site's tools in an attempt to fix what they called a glitch in its system.

"This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today," a statement from the company said Tuesday.

"This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third-party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Early Wednesday morning, the site remained inaccessible in some parts of the country, with a "We're upgrading" message displayed on its homepage.