Facebookalypse Rumour: Did you fall for it?

Over the weekend, the rumour was that ‘Facebook will end on March 15th.’

OH DEAR LORD!!!

What would you do without Facebook?

Worry not though, this in fact was just a rumour and Facebook is not shutting down!

“Facebook has dismissed rumours that the social networking site is shutting down, after millions of its users got panicked.”

This was initially instigated by a website, Weekly World News.

According to their story, the social media giant would shut down in March because Mark Zuckerberg was getting too stressed out.

“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”

“After March 15th the whole website shuts down,” said Avrat Humarthi, Vice President of Technical Affairs at Facebook. “So if you ever want to see your pictures again, I recommend you take them off the internet. You won’t be able to get them back once Facebook goes out of business.” 

As expected, this hoax spread like fire and got everyone into a panic! The phrase "Is Facebook shutting down" was the 14th most searched for on Google on Saturday and the 10th most as of Sunday morning.

Groups on Facebook appeared protesting against the shut down and Twitter users were tweeting about the concern of their pictures.

"We didn't get the memo about shutting down, so we'll keep working away. We aren't going anywhere; we're just getting started," the New York Daily News quoted Facebook as tweeting.

What baffled me was, a website estimated at being worth over $50 billion, why on earth would anyone even think of suddenly shutting it down???

As sad as it sounds…let’s face it, our lives would end if Facebook or Twitter or even the internet was taken away from us! This is what the world has come to. . .