After the Pandemic, outage of FB, WhatsApp, and Instagram was observed by many of us. I am curious about what happened last night, what did you do or how did you feel about it ?
Not for nothing but in many places — including Israel and Palestine — WhatsApp is used as the de facto phone and text messaging platform. Ostensibly, a utility is down right now for millions of people. The billionth reason to break down and regulate Facebook. - Abraham Gutman
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I went to BJJ class (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) and had a blast making real friends in meatspace, then laughed when my wife told me about how FB was down when I got home. I gave up on social media years ago, it's toxic trash.
It's better to just ask people about their experience and not to lead them with the question, not to exaggerate and assume they got disconnected from the world, not to call a website outage a global phenomenon. Otherwise it comes across as manipulative - it's like you're telling people what their experience was and only pretending that you're asking a question.
Near zero impact on my life. Talked with one of my kids about it for a few minutes and about how we almost did the same thing to ourselves a couple of years back. So last night, I worked an hour or so on a pond I'm rehabbing, watched some tv with the wife, and fell asleep rather early so I could wake up early and work out.
I did wonder whether it might turn into something more significant, but it didn't. I was also curious about how long it would last, as it was quite a long outage.<p>I mainly contact my ex wife through WhatsApp and a lot of school/ parent communication goes through there. Some of my social groups are organised through fb.
I was concerned it might have been the quiet start of WWIII, a cyberattack aimed at a chunk of US infrastructure... I was worried Google and the rest would quickly follow in going offline.<p>I gave it about a 5% chance of it being that, and 95% of a clusterf*ck at Facebook.
Hadn’t noticed until I read some news about it this morning, I use HN and occasionally reddit. For messaging I deleted Whatsapp this year and use Telegram, Signal and iMessage.