Update: Wikipedia seems to go back "inside" while Facebook seems to return to us. It's really very strange that maybe it's due to some "upgrades" of GFW system?

Anyway, let's keep in track.

It's been a year since I wrote this post, now in 2009, facebook.com is again blocked in China. What a pity, what a shame! The same of you all, I want my Facebook and Twitter back!

BTW, this blog (ifgogo.com), aka Chinese in English, is a blog with different authors from all over the world blogging anything about China, Chinese, etc. I'd like to know whether you'd wanna be one of us :)

Update on July 3 / 2008:

It's back again, but not quite stable. There are occasionally package loss in the data transmission.

Anyway, I hope I was wrong, I hope it's just a little mistake of the censorship system. But for the damn censorship, my Application would get more users ;)

Update on July 2:

It’s totally down now. The other 2 IPs are also blocked. Take a look at this screenshot:

My ping result:

however, seems the Application server is "a little safer" than others :)

My tracert result:

C:\Users\awflasher>tracert 69.63.178.11

Tracing route to www.facebook.com [69.63.178.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1     9 ms     7 ms     7 ms  221.223.96.1
2     8 ms     8 ms     7 ms  61.148.36.85
3     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  61.148.5.209
4     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  61.148.154.17
5     8 ms     8 ms     7 ms  202.96.12.197
6    51 ms    51 ms    51 ms  219.158.7.178
7   151 ms   151 ms   150 ms  219.158.3.118
8     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Update on July 1: It's okay now, 2:58PM. Facebook.com now changed a new IP at 69.63.178.11. I am sorry if this post cause any inconvenience.

But they still blocked one IP(69.63.176.140) from Facebook: take a look at this pictures:

ping from inside China:

ping from outside China:

It's really a pity that I cannot access www.facebook.com. It's blocked just now on June 30, 2008.

It's "Beijing time 12:52PM".

I am just a web developer. I am not at all interested in political issues. But how can they just completely block a whole site? It's so rude!

My first Facebook Application is going to ship, what a pity!

It seems that only the www server is effected. The app server and developers server are all available and very fast.

some screenshots:

Ping from One of my server hosted inside the U.S:

Ping from China:

Tracert from China:

Before I talk more about Facebook, I want to say something about Xiaonei.com. That site looks near the same as Facebook The concept is the same, so is the style, and even the user interface. No doubt, that is a site copying everything from Facebook. Anyway, I liked there very much, especially in the last few months before graduation. I was attracted by such kind of site for first time.

About three months ago, I tried to take a deep look at Facebook and consider whether to sign up. I shadowed my friend for a while and found it was really dizzy. I did not mean the color, but the uncountable gadgets and links scared me. I did not feel ready to get involved in this complex ecosystem.

Now, I feel I have changed a bit. And I made a real progress that I finally join Facebook now. Hey friends, I am new and open here. Please feel free to share your good or bad emotions with me. :)

P.S. Is there any plug-in for Facebook that enables user to post blog items to a WordPress hosted site like this? I think it could be a good idea to write blogs in Facebook and post here, then use RSS to integrate items in Facebook. It is a win-win solution, as I do not want to write English blog on two sites. :P