Facebook's down... Like completely... Globally...

[ProfessorDetective]

And so is Instagram and WhatsApp.

And it might be deliberate damage control over a whistleblower.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/faceb ... 1633365581

[hammerofglass]

I'm honestly kind of confused by how big a deal people still make about Facebook. It's been a ghost town for a few years now.

[ProfessorDetective]

I'm honestly kind of confused by how big a deal people still make about Facebook. It's been a ghost town for a few years now.

It's the main social media network for a lot of the developing world and a lot of barely tech-literate Americans (the older types who learn one way to do things and will NOT budge from it, eg Zoom, Yahoo Mail).

[hammerofglass]

I'm honestly kind of confused by how big a deal people still make about Facebook. It's been a ghost town for a few years now.

It's the main social media network for a lot of the developing world and a lot of barely tech-literate Americans (the older types who learn one way to do things and will NOT budge from it, eg Zoom, Yahoo Mail).

Well that makes sense.

[Frustration]

*does a happy dance*

Burn, burn, burn!

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Yeah, this is why monopolies are bad. Facebook goes down and so does the dozen or so related communication apps they bought out because they fear competition.

[Draco Dracul]

If we're going to have capitalism (which I don't think we should) there should be a hard limit of 10 percent market in any given industry for any given company.

[Deledrius]

It's the main social media network

And, not to be redundant with what you just said, but to put a finer point on it: Facebook is probably the second-biggest advertising platform in the world behind Google.

[CharlesPhipps]

It'd be nice if somehow Zuckerberg didn't regain that 8 billion he lost.

But it does expose that Facebook had some utterly insane security measures like the fact that their systems run through Facebook so when Facebook went down, they couldn't reboot them.

[Nealithi]

I'm honestly kind of confused by how big a deal people still make about Facebook. It's been a ghost town for a few years now.

It's the main social media network for a lot of the developing world and a lot of barely tech-literate Americans (the older types who learn one way to do things and will NOT budge from it, eg Zoom, Yahoo Mail).

My issue with this comment is there is a mockery attached to learned skills. Keep adapting or some such nonsense. I can get to the programs I want to run with these three clicks. Now they are hidden behind obscure sounding names and take more steps to get the same results you had the day before. But the 'old' people are to blame. Why has the GUI for mailing been altered? Used to be Name, Company Name, Address. No no now it is a quiz. Give us the postal code. Oh we don't recognize that. Three more times then direct you to a person for what is supposed to be a simple online experience that Used to work. Guess what the new version forced down everyone's throats only accepts five numeric digits. No alphabet and no more than five. Great, but my Home postal code covers five towns and has three streets with the same name and numbers. You need the other four to actually get to MY house. And international shipping? Good luck.
It can't be the new and improved system can't handle it. The old one is still in place buried and works fine still. But if you raise a question on dumbing down things to uselessness. Or altering things because you can. Then get blown off because 'You are old and barely tech-literate'.
Explain why my mother is not allowed to have a simple folder labelled Christmas 2019. Where she put all her photos for that year. And a Windows update will wipe her shortcuts and move the folder somewhere else?