Its not our imagination. FB *IS* playing us.

[HoughMade]

Can't get on except through my phone.

On apps, it may look like you are able to use, but I don't think it is updating...at least it wasn't.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I am outraged and offended that you would say that!

I will now be outraged and offended in return. If we're really lucky, a 3rd party will be outraged and offended by one or both of us as well.

 

[spencer rifle]

I will now be outraged and offended in return. If we're really lucky, a 3rd party will be outraged and offended by one or both of us as well.

We can only hope. Maybe all caps will help:
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

 

[KittySlayer]

So the evil FB corporation playbook is as follows:

1. Bad story comes out from a FB whistleblower.
2. Accidentally let FB website get shut down.
3. Frustrated FB users cannot discuss the bad story for ## hours.
4. Frustrated FB users cannot feed their addiction (*) and realize how much they miss FB.
5. FB website is miraculously restored a day later.
6. FB users are so happy to get their FB "fix" they forget about bad story.
7. FB continues cashing checks and their wallet gets fatter.

(*) This would be like telling a chain smoker that tobacco will kill them and showing them horrific photos of their impending death. Then taking away their cigarettes for a day. When you give them a new carton of cigarettes they will be thrilled and could care less about their impending horrific death.

 

[klausm]

as I always tell my wife :"Its only Facebook!"

 

[HoughMade]

So the evil FB corporation playbook is as follows:

1. Bad story comes out from a FB whistleblower.
2. Accidentally let FB website get shut down.
3. Frustrated FB users cannot discuss the bad story for ## hours.
4. Frustrated FB users cannot feed their addiction (*) and realize how much they miss FB.
5. FB website is miraculously restored a day later.
6. FB users are so happy to get their FB "fix" they forget about bad story.
7. FB continues cashing checks and their wallet gets fatter.

(*) This would be like telling a chain smoker that tobacco will kill them and showing them horrific photos of their impending death. Then taking away their cigarettes for a day. When you give them a new carton of cigarettes they will be thrilled and could care less about their impending horrific death.

Who knows...but whatever the whistle-blower had to say (and yes, I watched and listened to what she had to say) wasn't going to cause a hiccup in their operation anyway, so this seems far fetched. The ONLY thing that Facebook cares about related to the whistleblower is possible government regulation, not a reaction from the users. it's not like this was the first negative story.

[ETA]

That Facebook spiked their own websites to stop unauthorized access makes more sense to me, but I am just speculating.

 

[bwframe]

Hammer and Nigel reporting Facebook has been down for a few hours.

Strangely, I didn't miss it?...

 

[Alpo]

The only thing I use FB for anymore is to watch the guys in India and Bengladesh make stuff with minimal tools.

 

[bwframe]

The only thing I use FB for anymore is to watch the guys in India and Bengladesh make stuff with minimal tools.

I have been lucky to avoid never have been in a position to have to be a Facebooker. Happily, I have never financially supported that DB Zucherburg or his woke company.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Hammer and Nigel reporting Facebook has been down for a few hours.

Strangely, I didn't miss it?...

Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram hacked

Facebook.com is now for sale and the entire database of Facebook users with passwords is now up and searchable on a dark web site I visit to keep track of these things. change your passwords folks.

www.indianagunowners.com

 

[Leo]

We are grand parents. The kids / grandkids use fb for communicating their activities, events, team schedules etc. I tried to avoid it but it is difficult to shut down when it is a link to the grandkids. Grandma would be even more difficult to live with if I shut it down. I hate that reality.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

We are grand parents. The kids / grandkids use fb for communicating their activities, events, team schedules etc. I tried to avoid it but it is difficult to shut down when it is a link to the grandkids. Grandma would be even more difficult to live with if I shut it down. I hate that reality.

You and they don't have phones? I do get it, but I still think it's nuts. My mom is 99 years old. I can still talk to her on the phone. If Facebook was the only method to communicate with her, I'd be SOL.

 

[bwframe]

We are grand parents. The kids / grandkids use fb for communicating their activities, events, team schedules etc. I tried to avoid it but it is difficult to shut down when it is a link to the grandkids. Grandma would be even more difficult to live with if I shut it down. I hate that reality.

That's what I was referring to above. I have been lucky nothing has forced it (yet.)

My girls were just old enough that Facebook was not a thing until they were old enough to make their own decisions. When they did do Facebook, both of them embarrassingly overshared and deleted their accounts. Hopefully, that bad experience will be passed along to the grandkids.

If Facebook became THE way that my grandkids communicated, I would have to sign up.

 

[indykid]

Facebook down most of the day, yet life goes on. Not the end of the world. I wonder how many will commit suicide because they couldn't access their brag-book.

 

[9mmfan]

I have avoided Facebook like the plague. I see people at work on it constantly when they are supposed to be actually working.

 

[rhamersley]

We can only hope. Maybe all caps will help:
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

I’m offended and outraged, so not the same thing…

 

[Ark]

The "whistleblower's" assertion is that the real scandal is Facebook not censoring, controlling, and manipulating speech *enough*.

Pro-surveillance state agitprop.

 

[jcj54]

If I were on FB I might find this interesting. I am not, so I don't.
After all the issues regarding censorship, Zuckerberg giving a lot of money to in essence influence elections, etc. I won't be.

 

[pmbiker]

I started saying it @10 years ago and I'll say it again here.

F*** facebook.

 

[Breeve]

I disabled my Facebook. Haven't felt better.