Hot News - Facebook Ending, March 15 Facebook; Will Facebook end on March 15, 2011? This is the latest trend circulating all over the web. Don't worry folks, Facebook will not be closing down. How did this rumor get started?. According to World News Insight , it started off by the actual website and then of course spread like wildfire on the popular social network Twitter.
Facebook Ending on March 15” is the “news” that has spread quickly across the web—it is unclear whether the hoax began from rumours on Facebook or by a website called WeeklyWorldNews. WeeklyWorldNews says “users will no longer be able to access their Facebook account” starting March 15, because “managing the site has become too stressful.” The article goes on to quote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg saying, “I just want my old life back.” he website, however, has made false claims in the past. But it’s not the first time the social network has faced a hoax—similar rumors were spreading back in 2007. “A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. In Facebook several of these hoaxes are popping up all over the place,” says the description of a group called “Facebook Hoax” on Facebook.
The group suggests to save bandwidth and unnecessary false understandings and “use your common sense before you forward a message” to friends on Facebook, with a tip to “copy some of the text from the message into the Google search field and take a look at the search result that the search engine finds for you” as a starting point.
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