Rumors of an impending
Facebook
shutdown had the site's millions of users in a panic Saturday as they
wondered who would take their number one procrastination tool away. The Internet rumor was sparked by
a report from the "
Weekly World News," a website which also includes a story insisting "Alien spaceships to attack Earth in 2011" and another titled "
Mike Tyson Pigeon Fetish." According to their Facebook "story," the super popular social media website would be shut down in March because
Mark Zuckerberg was getting too stressed out."Facebook
has gotten out of control and the stress of managing this company has
ruined my life," the newspaper quoted Zuckerberg as saying at an alleged
press conference in
California on Saturday.The
questionable story apparently sent Facebook users into a panic. The
phrase "is facebook shutting down" was the 14th most searched for on
Google Saturday and the 10th most as of Sunday morning.On
Facebook itself, groups like "Against shutting down Facebook on 15th of
March" popped up with the slogan "No Facebook, No Party". On
Twitter, users fretted about what would happen to their pictures – not to mention social lives. "If Facebook shutdown Im not going to remember nobody birthday (sic)," one Twitter user wrote. Others started making alternate plans, saying they would move their information to
MySpace, Twitter or a new service, like the one Google is rumored to be working on. The
rapidly spreading rumor had many others ridiculing people's addiction
to the social networking site that is used for everything from posting
pictures, party invites and showing off how many friends that people
have (even if they're just on the 'Book)."The number of Facebook users believing it will shutdown proves how badly it needs to be shutdown," Twitter user Ramezm quipped. No
matter the parody report, Facebook has shown no signs of shutting down.
It is set to most likely release its public finances to possibly become
a public company later this year. A few weeks ago, a team at
Goldman Sachs valued the
Harvard tech-startup at around $50 billion.If it as valued for that at an IPO offering, it would be the largest start-up tech offering in history.
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