Who do you want to be today?

To explain; today's probably not been the happiest day in a Facebook engineer's life, with last night's maintenance turning out a bit wrong. I don't know exactly what they did to the site, but the end result appears to be that the 'remember me' cookies out there on people's PC's had their unique ID reassigned internally. Or, to put it another way, 'remember me' has now become 'remember some other guy'.

As such, if you visit the Facebook front page, you may get lucky and find yourself living a whole new life, with new friends to converse with and new parties to go to. Even better, if you login from a large corporate network (like say, Microsoft) the chances are even better due to a page caching problem too.

Update: "Having done a little research, it appears that Facebook uses some advanced caching on the server side and one of the reasons for the maintenance was to improve the caching still further. I suspect that they are rolling back the changes as a matter of some urgency."

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I once suggested 'Who do you want to be today?' as a subline for the internet, but it was massively outvoted by 'XXX TEEN GIRLS NOW' :(