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Update 02/07/2012: Facebook has been rolling out a new photo viewer over the last week that may be contributing to the “slowness” of Facebook lately.
Regardless, the issue seems to be less widespread for the time being – any further developments will be added to this article.
Please inform me through the comments section below if you think the Facebook slowness issue has resurfaced.
Facebook Loading Problem:
As many of you have probably noticed, there seems to be a problem with slowness on Facebook today.
The problem is evident when both using Facebook itself or accessing a site that interfaces with Facebook’s API – any site on the web with a Facebook like button.
I have noticed on multiple pages not affiliated with Facebook, that they will not finish loading and instead, continue to display a “waiting for www.facebook.com” message in the page load status indicator at the bottom of my browser.
This problem has also been verified by some of my colleagues.
It is one thing for Facebook to be slow or have issues when a user is actually using the Facebook.com domain. It is another thing when almost every page on the internet is having trouble loading completely because it is hooked up to the Facebook API.
I will be keeping an eye on this issue throughout the day and updating this post when more information is available.
If you have any details on the issue, please leave them in the comments section below.
It would be great to hear how widespread and severe the Facebook loading issue is.