Facebook is down! Massive outage

[roamer_1]

You have to admit though... the irony is 6ft deep... Somebody canceled faceboot.   

[catfish1957]

It appears to have been an internal event.  That could either be a hacker who got inside, or a legit employee who deployed the wrong files.

Breaking News:  It was an inside job, and the perp was caught in the act.

[Kamaji]

You have to admit though... the irony is 6ft deep... Somebody canceled faceboot.   

Definitely!

[DB]

Maybe "Lets Go Brandon" broke their AI...

[240B]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKaB_Xhh80

[libertybele]

...and the downside?? I don't use facebook, nor twitter, nor instagram. I could really care less.

[DB]

...and the downside?? I don't use facebook, nor twitter, nor instagram. I could really care less.

I'm enjoying the hell out of it...

[Kamaji]

I'm enjoying the hell out of it...

Same here.

[mystery-ak]

Facebook's Chief Tech Officer offers 'sincere apologies' for global five-hour outage (and counting) across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and blames 'networking issues': Zuckerberg loses $7bn in HOURS as shares nosedive

    Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down at around 11.50am EST on Monday and remain broken
    All went dark after a 'flurry' of changes to the system that allows people to access its sites on the internet
    The damage is believed to have been caused by an internal error rather than any malicious attack
    It remains unfixed with escalating damage done - already the outage is estimated to have cost $160million
    Facebook won't say what caused the outage or how long it will last but experts say it will be a mammoth task bringing the networks back online
    The outage sparked panic among businesses that rely on the site - and humor on rival site Twitter
    There were initial reports that telecommunications networks were also down but those were driven by people being unable to use the apps on their mobile devices 

By Jennifer Smith and Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

Published: 13:05 EDT, 4 October 2021 | Updated: 17:27 EDT, 4 October 2021

Facebook's Chief Technology Officer offered his 'sincere apologies' on Monday afternoon as a global outage of the website along with Instagram and WhatsApp stretched into its fifth hour, costing the company $50billion and CEO Mark Zuckerberg $7billion and counting.

The cause of the outage is believed to have been changes made to Facebook's systems at 11.50am EST.

It is believed they were caused in error and were not a cyber attack, but Facebook is yet to confirm the cause of the outage.

It sparked global outages that are detrimental to online businesses and decimate the company's ad-wielding power.

more
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10058203/Verizon-T-Mobile-T-leaving-thousands-without-mobile-internet-phone-services.html

[Kamaji]

Apparently, it's taking so long to get it all back up and running because (a) they ran their door access protocols on the same networks, so that's all shut down and they can't get physical access to the servers without a struggle, (b) the Border Gateway routers were all managed remotely - which means you need to either have static IP addresses to the peers, or you need a DNS system, and since they didn't use static IPs, the people who manage the peers - the people who know what needs to be fixed - can't access the physical machines and are going to have to travel to where the machines are physically located.

[mystery-ak]

Facebook is back up

[mountaineer]

Facebook is back up

Let's all go there at once - maybe they'll crash.

[mystery-ak]

Let's all go there at once - maybe they'll crash.

It's a little quirky...just checked to see if all my pics were still there

[mountaineer]

Evelyn Rae
@_evelynrae
I find it amusing how so many people believe that Facebook was hacked, yet don’t believe that the US election could have been…
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[sneakypete]

Kind of hard for me to do my job as a Social Media Manager when two of the three platforms I use are down.

WhatsApp is apparently down as well.

@txradioguy

WTH is a "Social Media Manager"?

Sounds like a Propaganda Chief.

[240B]

It's a little quirky...just checked to see if all my pics were still there

FB is not 100%, but it does seem to have basic functionality.

[Fishrrman]

facebook, twitter, instagram ... all of them could be down for days, a week... I wouldn't even know... not on any of them, don't use them.

[sneakypete]

What is 'Facebook'?

@Hoodat

I think it is some sort of chat site for people even more useless than us.

[sneakypete]

Someone please check on Zuckernerd, stat! Let's hope the Chinese didn't get to him.

@mountaineer

Why?

[libertybele]

It's a little quirky...just checked to see if all my pics were still there

I back up all my pics onto a thumb drive and I also print them out.  I learned the hard way long ago, I had all my pics backed up onto my computer and my computer crashed -- lots and lots of pics lost.

Printing out pics or putting them on a thumb drive may be old fashioned, but at least I have them.

[EdinVA]

@Hoodat

I think it is some sort of chat site for people even more useless than us.

@sneakypete
Is that possible? 

[libertybele]

@Hoodat

I think it is some sort of chat site for people even more useless than us.

   We all have our little 'quirks' ... but we're lovable. 

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete
Is that possible?

@EdinVA

Oh,yeah. Don't believe me,go there and read some of the posts when it goes back up. Stoopid squared.

[DB]

I back up all my pics onto a thumb drive and I also print them out.  I learned the hard way long ago, I had all my pics backed up onto my computer and my computer crashed -- lots and lots of pics lost.

Printing out pics or putting them on a thumb drive may be old fashioned, but at least I have them.

Just a note. Unpowered USB thumb drives (FLASH memory) can degrade over a couple of years to the point of loosing your data. It greatly depends on how many write cycles it has gone through and the FLASH technology being used. Spinning disk USB drives tend to last a lot longer unpowered.

[sneakypete]

  We all have our little 'quirks' ... but we're lovable. 

@libertybele

Well,*I* am,anyhow.