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Facebook is struggling to keep up with the load placed upon it.
Currently, there are around 200 million people using facebook. Think
about that number, for a moment.
To put this into perspective a little bit... here's a list of the
world's countries by population:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
Facebook isn't a country, obviously. But if it were, it'd be the 5th
largest country in the world! More than triple the size of the United
Kingdom or France. That's a LOT of people to try to handle at once.
That said, I'm not having the long delays you are having. I sometimes
have to wait 30 seconds for a click... but never anything near an hour.
I agree that hour delays would make a site completely unusable.
But they're constantly working to upgrade their systems to handle the loads.
Also, keep in mind that many of the applications on facebook are hosted
by 3rd-parties. So if you are having trouble with an app -- for
example, if Mafia Wars is slow, it's probably not Facebook's fault, but
rather Zynga (or whomever hosts the app you're struggling with.)
Booth Martin wrote:
At least for me, lag times yesterday and today have been up to an hour,
and that seems unusable by any measure.
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