Sunday, December 23, 2007

Message for my friends on Facebook

My activities on Facebook have slowed down dramatically over the past few days because of holiday-related activities. Today Facebook in China is even out of the air, I understand from a few entries and indeed, I cannot download the page. As far as I can see, the service is suffering from technical problems.

Update: Problems seem to concentrate in Shanghai, as other Facebook contacts are able to post some updates.

4 comments:

lapsaptong said...

here in Beijing Facebook access is no problem. One way to have access to Facebook is going mobile. Use your mobile phone's browser http://m.facebook.com. my preferred way and it somehow circumvents the gfw...

China Herald said...

Facebook is working again here. Since it was a rather local problem, it was no FB-problem, but might as you suggest indeed be a local GFW problem. Also on my way to get a decent mobile :-)

Anonymous said...

It's NOT a local problem. I'm in Shandong province and have been experiencing the same problem countless times - mimicking the block on Wikipedia - the great fire wall simply won't let it to load. And apparently Craigslist is now blocked as well!

D said...

I am in Tianjin, and I cannot load facebook either. anyone around is able to login to facebook today?