"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgfObekV6JQ

Not what I was expecting based on the url.

Facebook: this other page has followed your page! would you like to follow it back?
Me: uh, can I look at it first?
Facebook:
Me: ok, fine, I'll search for it
(a hundred partial matches come up, none are the page I am looking for, I give up)

Just got a notification that Warner Bros. has released their claim on a live video I took in 2018 at the last local monthly Soul Night of people dancing to "Land of 1000 Dances".

I forgot I even shot it.

So the morning after a whistleblower releases a trove of documents that reaffirm that Facebook is evil, the site and its other sites all go down?

mmmmmm say that again

It’s actually been nice to not able to access it.

hard agree

I have definitely had the thought today "would I really miss these sites if they just never came back online?" And the answer is no for the most part. It would be nice to keep instagram just because I've been using it as a kind of musical diary of my playing, and messenger is sort of helpful for keeping track of people I don't otherwise have in my contacts, but I could remedy that by just getting their phone numbers or emails.

Would need a substitute for the family WhatsApp

how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9

— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021

incredible

this is a great day for America

what a horrible day for purveyors of aspirational bougie content!

I might go an entire day without thinking about whether I need washable rugs or $100 linen sheets!

I was on the verge of buying a bath stone to replace my stinky bathmat, tbh

Looks like Twitter is having problems now too. I have been unable to see responses to any tweets and lots of similar complaints on down detector. Maybe all social media will go away today!

why don't you just wash the bathmat?

Fuck washing a mat

And there we have it!

notgonnahappen

So, someone deleted large sections of the routing....that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it....that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw

— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021

please please please

lol my mother usually FB messages me when she brings dad home from the adult daycare and i had to tell her "use this old fashioned texting thingy today, FB don't work".

Wish.com ad makers mourn

can instagram influencers apply for unemployment

i'd miss facebook tbh. obv society will be better off without it – but it's been a great way to keep in touch with (most) my circle of friends during these covidy times.

are we all gonna have to join gab?

I’m texting with some friends who jokes “does this mean we have to join Parler now?”

Mobile messenger app on Android is working

Google already having emergency meetings to relaunch Google+

if they weren't on facebook, my friends from around the world would presumably be on something less evil, so I welcome its death, even though I am a regular user.

xpost mine works but I noticed if I send a message it doesn't actually get delivered

i've had a test message in 'sending' for over an hour

it's very funny to me that facebook disabled my account about a week before this total collapse

wow rip facebook, surely this is it for them

Fortunately Myspace is poised to fill this void

brad turns out you were the key user holding it all together

was the disabling for breaking some rules (which is astonishing to me that someone could have accomplished this) – or was it a requested disablement?

Mewe, baby!

xps Android Messenger still down here. Probably sorting their crap out by service by region.

Pretty great.

i wonder if they can find the backup. it's likely somewhere in zuck's closet.

Nah, Zuck finally finished gathering all the data he needed before uploading to the mothership and flying back to his home system.

Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021

employees locked out of the offices apparently?

anyway Clay otm i'm sure this is the nail in the coffin for them

was the disabling for breaking some rules (which is astonishing to me that someone could have accomplished this) – or was it a requested disablement?

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, October 4, 2021 1:15 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i barely use facebook as it is, but yes, it was because i supposedly broke a rule (i extremely didn't and have been assuming my account was hacked)

It would be pretty hilarious if Facebook employees security badges operated through login with Facebook.

yeah office locks using the going through an external dns service to resolve facebook.com is like… very lol to me

Guys mods are telling me ILX membership requests are up 1200%, IPO in the works

Can we start influencing elections, then?

start? hahaha

TFW you want to yuk about this somewhere other than ILX, and then remember for you that place <was> Facebook.

The next time the hackers do something like this they should give a secret heads up to all the restaurants that use Facebook to host their menus first.