Facebook Hoax

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has gotten a forwarded message on their Facebook that is "supposedly" from the founder of the popular website, Mark Zuckerberg.

Attention all Facebook membeRs.

facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,there have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is that there are too many non-active Facebook members and, on the other side, too many new Facebook members.

We will be sending this message around to see if members are active or not. If you are active please send to at least 15 other users using Copy+ Paste to show that you are still active. *Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks will be deleted without hesitation to create more space.*

Send this message to all your friends to show me that you're still active and you will not be deleted.

Founder of Facebook,

Mark Zuckerber

First off, if this was a real, official, bonafide, genuine message, it would definitely not be sent out through the messaging system in Facebook. A message of this urgency would be sent out to the emails of the users. And even if it was sent through Facebook, why not just send it to every user and have them reply to the initial message instead of forwarding it to millions of people? The answer is because it's a fake. I personally have not even noticed any slowing of Facebook either.

The message isn't even written professionally. With punctuation errors, spacing issues, capitalization mistakes, and a general air of informality, it's painfully obvious how unofficial this is; as though the founder of this popular of a website would have the time to personally write something to the users himself.

And what's this about too many new Facebook members? Can there even be such a thing? I can understand servers being bogged down from an enormous amount of traffic at one time, but there's no such thing as "too many" users. The whole point of Facebook is to hook as many people as possible.

So my point is, do not fall for this hoax. It only spreads it and scares people; not to mention it annoys people who are a bit more in the know. If something sounds too good, or in this case, even too horrible, to be true, more than likely, it is.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/overload.asp#facebook