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

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.

seems like I remember a time long long ago when restaurants had printed menus but alas I was just a boy

sounds like the outages may have been self-inflicted when Facebook engineers screwed up a BGP config change

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/

xpost - COVID killed printed menus dead for good this time.

lol, lots of restaurant Facebook pages just feature a snapshot somebody took of the paper menu.

According to u/ramenporn — who claims to be a Facebook employee and part of the recovery efforts—this is most likely a case of Facebook network engineers pushing a config change
that inadvertently locked them out

Because of course.

Facebook right now desperately trying to reach Facebook customer service about being locked out of Facebook.

Facebook admin says unfortunately they went against community standards, must wait 30 days to restore service

Bunch of people clicking thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on posts from yesterday, wondering why the numbers are not changing.

Oversight Committee going to take the case

but they can't get into their accounts

Russians putting plan B into action, dispersing disinformation pamphlets from airplanes.

Yeah same with Google, most restaurant listings include pictures of paper or signboard menus.


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

I had just been reporting a bunch of trolls for spreading covidiocy on the Resident Advisor Insta page right before it went down and initially assumed they had turned the tables on me, for mocking them relentlessly. I do assume I will get banned eventually if I keep it up.

Thinking about starting a campaign to pressure RA etc to just completely block comments on their accounts if they can’t be fucked to block the brigades of political trolls. However I doubt there would be much if any real impact of my efforts at all.

(xpost)

leave a harsh yelp review for facebook

I thought this was good:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html

Facebook is in trouble.

Not financial trouble, or legal trouble, or even senators-yelling-at-Mark-Zuckerberg trouble. What I’m talking about is a kind of slow, steady decline that anyone who has ever seen a dying company up close can recognize. It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it, influencing every managerial priority and product decision and leading to increasingly desperate attempts to find a way out. This kind of decline is not necessarily visible from the outside, but insiders see a hundred small, disquieting signs of it every day — user-hostile growth hacks, frenetic pivots, executive paranoia, the gradual attrition of talented colleagues.

Too bad I can't share that on Facebook.

they also said over a decade ago that going public was going to kill FB and no young people would use their system anymore and....well.....it's like Taco Bell, people consume it and don't mind that it makes them shit their brains out.

How long has Apple been able to sustain their death spiral?

@ forklovestofu where to find Resident Advisor’s Yelp page?

leave a harsh yelp review for facebook

"Torbin U.
Denmark
one star

I would say ... delete that."

Apparently the outage is the fault of a single "cretinous" employee who deleted the site while tying to scrub all mentions of himself from the internet in a fit of self-loathing.

No name as yet, but there's a photo.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Nick_Clegg_%282011%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/402px-Nick_Clegg_%282011%29_%28cropped%29.jpg

My two teenage kids have not even considered getting fb accounts, and I don't think anyone at their high school wants one. That can't be good for growth.

The death spiral dream sounds great, but a huge percentage of the world's population uses FB as the internet, full stop. Like, that's the only site they visit ever.

It does seem like the only reason young people use FB is to communicate with older generations.

Given the way things are going the next big thing will probably be Telegram 3.0 after it’s been assimilated into the TikTok “multiverse” or whatever.

The kids still like Instagram.

literally my best friend couldn't message one of her other best friends as she never got her phone number as they always used Messenger to communicate

i just got a message from someone but i can't tell if it was old and snuck through

I just got in, not sure it'll last.

I was picking a friend up at the airport today and we only ever communicated over Messenger - thankfully fellow ILXor kate78 had an actual mobile number for her!

The kids still like Instagram.

I couldn’t say what actual substantive difference there is between TikTok and Instagram, but it seems like most of the content on Instagram is reposted from either TikTok or Twitter. I know the young people don’t fuck with Twitter, it’s just for memeing. But unless there’s also close to a majority of content on TikTok which is reposted from Instagram, then I get the impression that TikTok is more popular with those on the front edge of the curve.

Instagram appears to be back online

facebook too

it was nice while it lasted

Never forget

Actually still down here. But I have not forgotten.

the culprit?

http://i.imgur.com/0bED8TD.jpeg

Francis!

Whatsapp still seems hosed

networking notworking

don't go back to facebook, stay on this thread, we can do all the facebook stuff if you like, maybe embed some ads which autoplay at a loud volume and 100 posts from the same woman you met 14 years ago and have no real interest in.

She had babies though

mine didn't, she just posts everything she eats, not sure why fb thinks I am interested as I scroll past all of them in a hopeless search for the posts from my actual friends, which it refuses to show me.

Idk anything about this fellow but there’s some interesting history if nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCTlcj5vImk

The only people I know who use WhatsApp are South and Central American immigrants who talk to their relatives at home that way. They'd be really screwed if it went away.

I think we just need to be able to “poke” other ilx’ors here and we might never need Facebook again

How long has Apple been able to sustain their death spiral?

Its death spiral of making very popular things that cost a lot of money and selling them?

Apple is pretty much an old school traditional business compared to FB, Google etc

Apple has much more in common with Nintendo than FB or Google

otm, also they have actual stores you can go to if you have issues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEFBBN1ueE