Facebook woes
hah!
So just about everyone is up in arms about the problems with Facebook today which include ;
- seeing other people’s friends and not your own
- seeing someone else’s profile and not your own
- seeing other people’s inbox
- seeing other people’s notifications
- seeing other people’s friend requests
- seeing other people’s email addresses in the login box
and so on.
I personally think its quite funny. As well as being a little odd that they have not shut Facebook down to fix this problem.
I wonder how many law suits are imminent because of them sharing your information without your permission. Nothing that a public apology can’t fix
SOLUTIONS FOR THE ADDICTED
Simply log out, then log in as yourself and go to the page youre trying to access.
Not seeing the information that “supposed” to be yours? just hit CTRL+F5 and the page will refresh and reflect your info.
sorted.
The problem (according to sources at facebook) was expiration tags that are set in the headers of every web page that you visit. The result of this is that users got served “cached” versions of the site and thats why a ctrl f5 fixed it since those key combinations force the transparent cache to redownload the content even if its still marked as being fresh in the caches store logs.
The majority of internet service providers in South Africa utilise transparent caches for international connections so as to save bandwidth and with facebook stuffing up their expiry tags, we got cached content.
HA! I suspected it had something to do with cached data or had something to do with the proxies that lie between us and the rest of the world because of the fact that I was only logging in as other south africans.
that said thanks for the explanation Ian!