The Internet rumor was sparked yesteryear a study from the "Weekly World News," a website which also includes a storey insisting "Alien spaceships to educate on footing inwards 2011" as well as some other titled "Mike Tyson Pigeon Fetish."
According to their Facebook "story," the super pop social media website would move unopen downwards inwards March because Mark Zuckerberg was getting every bit good stressed out.
"Facebook has gotten out of command as well as the stress of managing this society has ruined my life," the paper quoted Zuckerberg every bit proverb at an alleged press conference inwards California on Saturday.
The questionable storey patently sent Facebook users into a panic. The phrase "is facebook shutting down" was the 14th most searched for on Google Sat as well as the tenth most every bit of Dominicus morning.
On Facebook itself, groups similar "Against shutting downwards Facebook on 15th of March" popped upwards alongside the slogan "No Facebook, No Party". On Twitter, users fretted well-nigh what would move on to their pictures – non to refer social lives.
"If Facebook shutdown Im non going to scream upwards nobody birthday (sic)," 1 Twitter user wrote.
Others started making alternate plans, proverb they would deed their data to MySpace, Twitter or a novel service, similar the 1 Google is rumored to move working on.
On Dominicus night, Facebook aimed to set a residue to the rumors as well as tweeted, "We didn't larn the memo well-nigh shutting down, as well as hence we'll croak along working away. We aren't going anywhere; we're only getting started."
But the chop-chop spreading rumor had many others ridiculing people's addiction to the social networking site that is used for everything from posting pictures, political party invites as well as showing off how many friends that people receive got (even if they're only on the 'Book).
"The divulge of Facebook users believing it volition shutdown proves how badly it needs to move shutdown," Twitter user Ramezm quipped.
No thing the parody report, Facebook is educate to most probable unloose its populace finances to perchance larn a populace society after this year. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks ago, a squad at Goldman Sachs valued the Harvard tech-startup at unopen to $50 billion.
If it every bit valued for that at an IPO offering, it would move the largest start-up tech offering inwards history.
News Source : Nydailynews
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