http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/rumor-facebook-closing-storms-web/story?id=12575856
Weekly World News wrote that Facebook was ending by March 15th the Saturday prior to the event. They had quotes from founder Mark Zuckerberg stating that he was done with Facebook and that it had ruined his life. The Weekly World News told all Facebook users to delete all of their own personal pictures and profiles before March 15, 2011.
This article was a complete hoax and was said to be written by a company that also writtes about UFO sightings and was not a credible source. Fortunately, this type of news had it's users worried that their Facebook live's were going to torn away from them. This hoax may have shown user's how much Facebook communication really means to them. On the other hand, this hoax could have lost some of its users due to their shift of independence away from Facebook upon reading/hearing that Facebook was shutting down.
Facebook is so widely used by so many people it is not suprising that there would be some sort of negative frantic news. However, Facebook is so commonly used by people that this hoax only lasted so long before it was figured out and settled. Also, this hoax was presented at the time of Facebooks growth and was surpassed by all of the in-coming users.
Do you think that this hoax had any effect with Facebooks viewer database?
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/rumor-facebook-closing-storms-web/story?id=12575856
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