On a whim, I tried looking at FaceBook this morning and got 404'd. I figured that they'd finally had enough of me and canceled my account, but then common sense asserted itself. If Mark Zuckerberg hasn't permanently banned Wirecutter, Owner-Operator of Knuckledraggin' My Life Away, it's a sure bet that neither he nor his staff are going to bother with me. So, a little investigation is needed - Ah-Ha!
It seems that FaceBook is not alone. Instagram is toast, as is WhatsApp, Messenger, and likely others that we aren't seeing here because they are big and important enough.
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What bothers me about all this is that these are major social media sites, and I would think they'd be able to protect themselves. One site, maybe it's an inside job. More than one is an attack, or in this case, a successful attack. I wonder what else is down that we haven't heard of?
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Or else their bit wranglers changed something (sever, software, site, etc.) and the new information hasn't propagated through the DNL "address book". There are a number of possible reasons and, apparently, you don't rate an explanation.
Oddly enough, while the web browser based site was down, the phone app worked well, for myself and others.
I am betting a white nationalist was involved and that it was an attack based on racism.
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Mike-SMO: I can just imagine the finger pointing and name calling contest that started up thirty seconds after the whole thing crashed. I've been out of the IS industry for a long time (thank heavens) but I have a few friends in the know and that's what they suggested. My thought is that most people wouldn't begin to understand what went wrong, and those that did wouldn't care.
Ed: That is kind of odd, isn't it? I don't use the phone app - I have an outdated flip phone - but I guess that would indicate that the massive databases didn't go down.
Glen: I'm putting my money next to yours.
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