FACEBOOK DOWN: SOCIAL NETWORK STOPS WORKING ALONGSIDE INSTAGRAM AMID MAJOR THANKSGIVING OUTAGE
Source: The Independent
Andrew Griffin
Facebook has stopped working, amid a major Thanksgiving outage.
Users complained that the social network broke at the same time as Instagram, which is owned by the same company. WhatsApp, which is owned by the same company, did not appear to be affected by the issues.
Vast numbers of people complained about the issue, according to tracking website Down Detector. The issues were seen across the world, but not everyone appeared to be affected.
Many Facebook users said they were able to get on the site as normal, but that important parts of its functionality were broken. That included sharing new posts, for instance.
Facebook Messenger, which is part of the Facebook platform but exists as a separate app, was also affected by the problems.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-down-today-instagram-status-thanksgiving-not-working-server-a9223841.html
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Let's break the habit!
Another bright side: not so many pictures of roasted turkey, etc.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Not a problem in sight. Not a cloud in the sky.
Thanksgiving greetings and messages and family photos everywhere ... as far as the eye can see.
I love it!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)It was a little wonky for a bit, but nothing worse than I experience here from time to time.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)n/t
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The real news should be "millions abandon Facebook lunacy in an effort to restore sanity to society"...
The most inane powerful company in the history of humanity...an overblown high school yearbook spawned from a woman rating system in the halls of Ivy League privilege. If it was gone tomorrow, the world would go on unchanged in a matter of days. There is NOTHING essential about them, ANY of the anti-social media whores.
Too bad they did not kill the company today, that would have been a REAL Thanksgiving Day gift to humanity.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)And I'm an atheist.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,828 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,828 posts)A friend and I could use the chat screen on short notice and pass images of our work easily, years ago. The account is essentially dormant since you can't actually kill one. It is in a work-related pseudonym, in any case.
I use it occasionally to check what's going on in Look-At-Me World like when something along the lines of the OP shows up I can get a first-hand look at it.
I have no use for the incipient narcism which has come to characterize a large portion of FB use along with the entire chat obsessed world. I also read books and newspapers in their paper form.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)Drat.
Their business model is starting to show through... Overload their site (and that's all FB really is, a web site.) with Erectile Dysfunction ads, junk, conspiracy theories, and inflammatory fake GOP talking points and then strip it all out for awhile until the plebes notice an improvement and then load it all up again. Rinse. Repeat.
Claim it's a necessity, all worth more than $100.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Link: https://outage.report/facebook
Appears to have started around 8:30 EST and was over before noon.
Would suit me fine if both Facebook and Twitter disappeared completely. Like Walmart and smart phones - destroying community and face-to-face human contact every day.....the very fiber of what built this nation.
KY....
MartyTheGreek
(562 posts)-There was a problem with uploading the Holiday Season's Political Messaging?
-Some fat guy sitting on his bed in Jersey is at it again!
-The White Hat good hackers are protecting us.
-The Dark State hackers are preventing us from watching FOX!
But really, I was just wondering what I might be missing on Fake Book today and got a good laugh!
I'm thinking of moving to one of the alternatives.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/facebook-alternatives-social-networks/
Actually I forgot I joined Ello a log time ago.
KPN
(15,587 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)Thanks very much for the confirmation.
we can do it
(12,118 posts)question everything
(47,271 posts)Was glad to know that family members made it to their destination in the middle of the snow storms.
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)and screw with everyone's lives, it may be about time for some monkey-wrenching of Facebook.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)n/t
ancianita
(35,813 posts)be a hacker group than a big scale entity that could cripple it.
I'm curious to see what turns up besides some "official story."
alittlelark
(18,886 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Odoreida
(1,549 posts)... it comes up normally with the log in screen.
I'm not on FB, so I didn't test logging in.
As they used to say at IBM "if it didn't happen twice it didn't happen".
Polybius
(15,239 posts)n/t
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Stay down!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)I don't know how anyone can not delete their accounts. Or at least be thinking of it. I wish there were another choice out there that did the same thing....without the fake ads allowed.
Someone like Craig of Craig's list. Where the company is not based on making the most profits. There is no reason why a platform would not be as popular without targeted ads, especially one that allows fake misleading lying ads that can subvert a democracy.
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)I have DELETED my Farcebook* account. Fuck you #MarkZuckerberg. You are a liar and a traitor, who willingly allowed American's private Farcebook* information to be used by Mercer*s Cambridge Analytica* in their quest to aid the Russians* in SELECTING @realDonaldTrump as POTUS.
#DeleteFacebook #FuckYouZuck #Resist