When Facebook goes down, an economy goes with it

I&#x27;ve yet to see any stats from companies I work with that are heavily invested in Facebook who aren&#x27;t just lying to themselves in meetings. The stats seem suspiciously off and their media content get almost zero interaction despite millions of followers. Which seems normal these days as Facebook and Twitter attempt to stay relevant.<p>But if all your chips are in Facebook, you&#x27;ve built a pretty weak business model. It&#x27;s been about 2 years since I&#x27;ve been on Facebook, and I didn&#x27;t even know about the outage until I went to a meeting with a client and they were all freaking out.

&quot;an economy&quot;<p>I think maybe &quot;a market&quot; maybe works better here?<p>I get there&#x27;s a thing happening here but if they&#x27;re not spending that money on Facebook, can they spend it elsewhere? Or won&#x27;t folks spending it because of facebook ads just spend that money elsewhere?

oh boo fucking hoo. companies paying tens of thousands of dollars to shove their ads in your face were unable to shove their ads in your face for a few hours. how tragic.

Impressive that they are selling $8-10k&#x2F;day in false eyelashes ($12&#x2F;piece) and meme products ($9.99, $29.99).

Relying on Facebook for a sizeable part of your business is rather foolish.

In parts of the developing world, Facebook is used sort of like Craigslist to connect buyers and sellers, with the prospective client&#x27;s friends list acting as a reputation system. Instead of this person to person bartering system, the developed world relies on advertisements and influencers for commerce. There&#x27;s a Bloomberg article that goes deeper into this but I can&#x27;t find it right now.

Are we even going to get a post-mortem on this? It seems substantial enough to warrant explanation, but they&#x27;re usually a lot quicker than this...

What about the economical gains from employees not wasting time on Facebook or otherwise doing something else more meaningful?

There are things that shouldn&#x27;t be sold and ways that things shouldn&#x27;t be sold. A better market for false eyelashes shouldn&#x27;t come at the cost of the many abominations that Facebook has introduced into your world.

Sounds like ‘to big to fall’ which to me is one more reason to let it go down.

Pretty interesting headline considering a lot of talk lately about breaking up Big Tech.

Good.