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Facebook and Instagram finally come back
online after SEVEN-HOUR global outage:
Zuckerberg loses at least $7BILLION and
Chief Tech Officer offers 'sincere apologies'
for 'network issues' which took down the
social media giants

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Posted By: Imright, 10/5/2021 12:44:57 AM

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp were back in business on Monday afternoon after a seven hour shutdown that cost CEO Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $7 billion. Technicians had attempted a 'manual reset' of its servers on Monday afternoon, which appeared to have worked. A small team of employees was sent to Facebook's data center, in Santa Clara, California, to try a 'manual reset' of the company's servers, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: web 10/5/2021 12:53:16 AM (No. 935489)
And millions of people throughout the world looked out their windows for the first time in months and thought to themselves, "hey, there is a real world out there! Why am I spending so much time on these idiot sites?" Guess I must be anti-social. I've never been on Faceplant or Instagram or any of them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 10/5/2021 1:49:21 AM (No. 935505)
Didn’t know or notice anything.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: anniebc 10/5/2021 4:40:52 AM (No. 935589)
I'm not anti-rich, but Zuckerburger deserves to lose way more than $7 billion. But, if people stop using these evil social media sites, they'd all go to Gehenna.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rather Read 10/5/2021 4:55:46 AM (No. 935598)
I've never used Facebook but I do use Instagram to share pictures with my family. That's about it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: 5 handicap 10/5/2021 6:24:52 AM (No. 935617)
The world was a better place for 7 hours.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Rinktum 10/5/2021 6:36:04 AM (No. 935630)
When your day is ruined because your social media access has been denied, something is very wrong. While these platforms are great avenues to connect with family and friends, they should not be the driving force in your life. We did actually live lives without them not so long ago. I have been trying to make it a point to put my phone away when I am out and about. The folks I see who cannot function without their device in their hands are kind of pathetic. How many times have you seen kids totally ignored because a parent has their head bowed looking down at their phone and that makes me very sad for their kids. I admit these devices are convenient but they also have a way of disconnecting us from life that is happening in real time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 10/5/2021 7:10:14 AM (No. 935657)
We think we have problems. How would you like to lose $7 billion overnight? The funny thing is nobody feels any sympathy for Suckerberg. I have been a member of similar rescue teams a few times when systems crash and business comes to a standstill. It's not fun at all. People scream and management interrupts you every five minutes for a status report. Fakebook was fun at the beginning when people simply exchanged family and cat pictures and everybody was civil. Once it became political and the techies thought they could control our lives, it all went downhill.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: PeterWolosin 10/5/2021 7:35:59 AM (No. 935686)
Did you miss them? Me neither.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Krause 10/5/2021 7:43:56 AM (No. 935694)
Horrors, all those poor women having to go through the busy store check-out lane without being on their phone!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Safari Man 10/5/2021 8:03:57 AM (No. 935714)
Farcebook CENSORED! A taste of their own medicine. Kiss my petard Muckerbird
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bpl40 10/5/2021 8:26:30 AM (No. 935737)
I don't use any of those foul evil products or services Didn't even know until I read it here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bigfatslob 10/5/2021 8:33:09 AM (No. 935747)
New crisis, "I survived the great shutdown of Facebook 2021". This is as dumb as Y-2K remember that one?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Are You Serious 10/5/2021 8:37:56 AM (No. 935754)
Oh....the social media outlets were down ? How odd I did not notice. I suppose it is because I am not on any of those silly apps. Grow up people !! That garbage is not needed.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: jhpeters2 10/5/2021 9:19:29 AM (No. 935804)
Expect another memo from facepunk head Zuck. It will read, "The network problem we experienced was a result of a minimum wage, female, chinese mattress handler who could not find the "ON" switch, as the switch was recently moved to another one of my 1000 houses in a whole other state that I bought in last November's election"
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 10/5/2021 9:22:11 AM (No. 935806)
Not being addicted to fakebook, tweeter, instagram, or Whatsapp, I think it is still nice to see these Social Media sites experience hard times yesterday. I feel bad for my grand kids who were born into SM and go into instant depression when they go somewhere and there isn't any wifi. Or actually, I feel good about it. I prefer staying connected with family in person. Old school? Yes. But, the world was a far better place before it was infected with SM.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: udanja99 10/5/2021 10:40:09 AM (No. 935878)
#4, you can do that with your phone - just text them photos. You can also FaceTime with your family. No need for Instagram or any other social media.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Enoch Powell 10/5/2021 10:50:15 AM (No. 935887)
Like Zuckerberg himself, Facebook is just annoying.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: mc squared 10/5/2021 11:34:17 AM (No. 935927)
Millions of cat pictures went unseen
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Reply 19 - Posted by: paral04 10/5/2021 11:39:59 AM (No. 935938)
$7 Billion of income to transmit inane conversations and propaganda? Where did I go wrong?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Speedypetey 10/5/2021 12:23:19 PM (No. 935995)
A theory on why Facebook interruption. https://youtu.be/lE8XrMXOpjQ
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Reply 21 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 10/5/2021 12:33:10 PM (No. 936002)
Help me understand…. Zuckerberg makes 1 Billion $’s per hour? That seems “generous” to me, but hey I’m just a rube here in the Midwest!
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Reply 22 - Posted by: hershey 10/5/2021 12:35:21 PM (No. 936006)
I'm even getting tired of Youtube...have to sit though those damnable ads before you can get to the video....and you can bet they will NOT lead me to purchase any of them...
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Reply 23 - Posted by: saralee 10/5/2021 12:37:18 PM (No. 936009)
Bet the guy responsible for this won’t get his Thanksgiving turkey and/or Christmas bonus😆
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Lawsy0 10/5/2021 12:39:33 PM (No. 936014)
Well shucky darn. I was hoping it was nothing trivial.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: dman 10/5/2021 3:33:52 PM (No. 936198)
Time to sign up (better yet, switch) to my favorite conservative alternatives: GETTR, Rumble, FrankSpeech, and America's Voice. There are other good options, but IMO these are most likely to survive a market shakeout/consolidation. Then "Zuckerbuck$" (h/t Dr. Peter Novarro) and the other globalists can pound sand. Yes there WILL be a bifurcation of the US communication and other markets. There is simply no compromise with evil traitors and their fellow travelers.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 10/5/2021 8:56:48 PM (No. 936449)
If FB was down for 7 hours, it's because they wanted to be down. Don't believe anything from Google/FB/Twitter.They're all media conglomerates and they lie.
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