You’ve got exactly five days to save all your Facebook pictures onto a disc, copy your event invites into a old-fashioned hard copy diary and decide who your real friends are: Hactivist group Anonymous have set the date for the Facebook apocalypse, and it’s next Monday, says the Independent!



Hacktivist group Anonymous has announced it will take down Facebook and release Zynga’s games for free download on 5 November if the latter does not backtrack on alleged plans to lay off 1,000 employees and outsource work.

On October 23rd, while the tech world was distracted by Apple’s unveiling of their iPad mini, gaming giant Zynga announced they would be culling 5 per cent of their employees, gave their Austin, Texas branch employees two hours to leave the building and suggested they may soon close their British and Japanese offices too.

Zynga also indicated its British and Japanese offices might close, and there are plans to switch maintenance of The Ville to its India base. Savings from the cuts should amount to between $15 million and $20 million (£9 million and £12 million).

The announcement was made by a member of the group in a video posted to YouTube on Sunday (The video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy on depiction of harmful activities).

The member wore the Guy Fawkes mask Anonymous has become known for.

Anonymous said: “On November the fifth we will release the key to the (Zynga games) data files. Remember, remember the 5th of November.” You can read more about the official announcement from Anonymous on this take down.

Let’s see what happens next. You can read about how to download your Facebook Profile to your Computer in terms of backup process. Bye for now.