DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2008/07/18/facebook-fail-whale/

  • Jane · 1 year ago
    A picture of me actually working.
  • gavroche · 1 year ago
    Zuckerberg giving you the finger!
  • Seanford · 1 year ago
    A bugler's eye mask you can print, cut out and ware to conceal your identity as you are going to have to stalk you ex-girlfriend from her bushes now instead of on-line.
  • vijay · 1 year ago
    F5
  • Adam Ostrow · 1 year ago
    my idea is a big picture of a status update from an account named Facebook that just says "Facebook is down"
  • lowkey · 1 year ago
  • Michael O'Connor Clarke · 1 year ago
    Don't have the time or, to be honest, sufficient skill to draw this myself, but I think it needs to be a FacePlant.

    Nasty version: cartoon of Monsieur Zuckerberg, hitting the pavement. Hard.

    Nice version: quietly sleeping random dude, with various greenery growing up out of nostrils, ears, etc.

    FacePlant.
  • mghwom · 1 year ago
  • Adam Ostrow · 1 year ago
    haha awesome ... I think we have an early leader
  • mghwom · 1 year ago
    So who's the big winner????
  • Marni · 1 year ago
    Three ideas. Why not!

    1. They should sell advertising on this page at a super high CPM! Maybe they'll be the first ads on FB to see major success?


    2. The phone number to the Facebook therapist hotline to comfort people.


    3. "Please don't go to MySpace! We're hurrying to fix the problem!"
  • morganb · 1 year ago
    legos. a big pile of legos.
  • balebond · 1 year ago
    Here's my original artwork... This took me 5 long minutes so I expect some recognition. :P

    http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn382/balebo...
  • wozkol · 1 year ago
    Excelent! My choice! ;D
  • balebond · 1 year ago
    lol... no matter what I making a t-shirt. :P
  • Jen · 1 year ago
    How about a message saying "HAHA now you actually HAVE to get back to work"
  • EPORIA · 1 year ago
    Mark Zuckerberg pulling his hair out.
  • adam · 1 year ago
    How about Fonzie jumping over some sharks.
  • LeonWestbrook · 1 year ago
    How about the Downtime Dog. He gently will weep whenever the 'book's servers are down.
  • Ian Ellis · 1 year ago
    "Sorry, you'll have to poke your friends later (or in real life)"
  • BA · 1 year ago
    A fallen lighthouse in relation to Beacon.
  • konko · 1 year ago
  • Geek · 1 year ago
    Look at your tabs, you`re such a geek
  • Ian Ellis · 1 year ago
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  • Elliot · 1 year ago
    it should be a phishing page for myspace, and if anyone logs in, or registers, they should delete their facebook account.
  • Dave Delaney · 1 year ago
    Oh oh oh. Something like this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/loiclemeur/2400525...

    Ha! :-)
  • Vitak · 1 year ago
    I'm no artist, so I won't embarrass myself with bad pictures, but I do have an active imagination.

    I see a cartoonish picture in greens and browns of a monkey in the jungle scratching his head and looking confused while a bunch of bananas hangs from a branch immediately over his head. The text reads, "Don't worry, we haven't gone anywhere. You'll find us eventually, you silly monkey."
  • tenkabuto · 1 year ago
    A picture of Matt underneath a blanket, tears streaming down his face, saying "Leave Facebook alone! ..it's only a social networking site!"
  • Joshua Kalle · 1 year ago
    I immediately thought of a snail, because facebook is always terribly slow...

    Here's one in Twitter colors:
    http://flickr.com/photos/41508280@N00/2682058508/

    But I also created one in more Facebook-like colors:
    http://flickr.com/photos/41508280@N00/2682088746/
  • Joshua Kalle · 1 year ago
    And my last one:

    "Someone poked our off-switch. Sorry"
    http://flickr.com/photos/41508280@N00/2692194366/
  • J Brain · 1 year ago
    How about a picture of someone poking their tongue out with the words "Face Off"?
  • Bryan Kress · 1 year ago
    The Fail Whale should be the "old Facebook" Face being swamped with books in a library overwhelmed. It would tie the old logo back into play and associate with the website. The old face was recognized by college students all over until they opened the site for everyone.
  • bViral · 1 year ago
    "Facebook is temporarily down due to a user overload. We invite you to face work... temporarily Sorry for the inconvenience."

    or better yet

    post a picture of Tom followed by "Don't even think about it. Have a nice day!" then link to -

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OtuYJldTA&...
  • bViral · 1 year ago
    lmao!!!
  • Richard · 1 year ago
    A silhouette of someone hunched at a desk asleep with their face in a book would be perfect.
  • MissRach · 1 year ago
    A facepalm of course. With an appropriatly funny apology.