Plenty of non social stuff uses Whatsapp. British Gas uses it as their support chat for their PAYG customers. In most of South America, it’s the default text platform.
This is serious. My bedtime routine is usually reading whether anyone's bins have been missed, asking if virgin broadband is down or posts trying to reunite a bank card with their rightful owner.
Guess I'll have to make some calls instead.
I know bugger all about the tech involved but from reading Twitter it suggests a large chunk of Facebook has been “permanently” deleted???
Facebook HQ:
On the other hand, my wife got to Morrisons just after the petrol tanker arrived - it was deserted, probably because this hadn't been broadcast on the local Facebook group.
And the world starts turning again…
Boo! The DNS is back up. I was beginning to imagine a future without local community facebook groups.
Phew! Antivaxers everywhere can 'dO tHeIr oWN ReSErch' again.
On the other hand, my wife got to Morrisons just after the petrol tanker arrived – it was deserted, probably because this hadn’t been broadcast on the local Facebook group.
Can't share hun x
martinhutch
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YouTube wasn’t affected was it?
Apparently whatever they broke took out the ability for their techs to remotely connect and fix it (I’ve been there myself not so long ago - it’s not a good day at the office!) with the added bonus that the staff also could t access their offices as their spades all use the network to check this ID!
As the entire world imploded and was remade while I was asleep I didn't notice. Does this mean I have been rebooted?
Based on my lad's experience of starting uni at the weekend, I suspect that the overload of new WhatsApp groups for accommodation, subject, uni, college and a million official and unofficial societies just caused it to explode
No FB, no WhatsApp and no Instagram . . . users worldwide apparently.
How will the Influencers have survived?!
Is anyone else a bit disappointed that it is working again today?
WhatApp being down was a bit of a pain but a world without FB and Insta is no bad thing.
Anything to lessen the screentime!
a world without FB and Insta is no bad thing.
Yeah.... they should have left it broken.
November 17th, 2178 - "On October 4th, 2021, increased productivity, vaccination rates, global economy indicators, and overall worldwide happiness indicators showed a sharp upwards spike for several hours. IQ scores globally doubled in all tests, while aggression levels subsided across the board. To scholars in the 22nd century, unfortunately, the cause of this has been lost to time."
My main observation was that JnrV was barely impacted, her and her mates live on Snapchat and barely touch Facebook products. It'll be interesting to see if FB are able to lure in her generation.
Didn't impact at all. I'm part of several What's App groups (one for our street is particularly inane) that went blissfully quiet don't use FB at all, and I didn't scroll aimlessly through Insta while making a cup of tea...
Mleh.
Oops how will lots of insecure people cope?
Says an insecure person on Social Media.... 😀
Apparently whatever they broke took out the ability for their techs to remotely connect and fix it
Yeah /S instead of /r sucks.
Which makes me think that come the apocalypse us over 40s are going to be the only ones that can remember how to actually do anything.
Reminds me of the aftermath from the London Tube bombing. Loads of blokes in suits having to walk like five minutes to work and being utterly bamboozled.
Well that's a bit random, but OK.
Which makes me think that come the apocalypse us over 40s are going to be the only ones that can remember how to actually do anything
Making ignorant assumptions about just how capable younger people actually are, is why you'd end up as their food....
how capable younger people actually are
Age and low cunning, trumps youth and exuberance every time.
how capable younger people actually are
I don't think bridges has a sense of humour.....
Oh I do. I'm pissing myself laughing at you.
That's, AT you, not WITH you... 😉
Age and low cunning, trumps youth and exuberance every time.
Hmm. Assuming yourself to be cleverer than youth, is truly folly. NEVER underestimate your opponent. That is why you also will be eaten. 😀
Social Media broken
Must be some good stuff in those Pandora Papers....
This'll just be the real 'leaders' reminding everyone else who is really in charge now.