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Occasionally sensory input gets too large for the central processing unit of social functions, and the core will undergo a reboot cycle.

Symptoms: a) Sudden silence in online applications after a period of normal activity for no apparent reason; b) After a period of between 2 weeks and 2 months (varies depending on crash severity), normal activity resumes.

Steps to reproduce the bug: a) It is impossible to manually induce this bug. It will automatically occur at least once in any given calendar year.

Hypothesis: Once the sensory systems are overloaded with a critical mass of social information it seems the buffer responsible for the output flow becomes saturated. This leads to a sudden shutdown of the input processing pipe. Externally no further activity is visible so it is difficult to speculate on the exact internal recovery mechanisms, but we do know from repeated observations that after a short interval of time, the input pipe is restored and the output buffer operates normally again. We presume an internal reboot cycle is able to clear the accumulated social pressure.

The most recent observation of this bug started around mid-december 2008 and lasted until early january 2009. Current status is normal. We expect no further issues for approximately 6 to 10 months.