FB/IG hacked or crashed
 

So... it started around 1045 eastern time/usa when they started chugging slowly and then full on just couldn't access anything... and it appears 1.5 million users info is up for sale somewhere on the web.

How's everyone feeling about their personal data being out there? As far as whatever you share with social media anyways...

For me, its not that big a deal cuz it was a brand new account after fascistbook deleted my old one, after I was basically suspended for 6 months straight... over a d@mn fine meme (one they suspended me for repeatedly even though no one else could see it & they always unlocked me on appeal anyways...)

Not too fun with one company owning such a chunk of the interwebs, eh?

I'm glad I deleted my Facebook a while ago.

Eh, its not like Facebook uses this information for nefarious stuff or gives / sells it for the highest bidder themselves.

So, basically no difference.

60 Minutes did a whole segment on a Facebook whistleblower yesterday, and now today Facebook went down, Coincidence?

Nothing ever is.... its intentional.

Lol. The number of spam calls & tonnage of spam emails I got after having to give them my cell for my old acct because I adminned a page with 80,000+ fans was insane... they sell every bit of info shared. Likely including those nudes people send. :tlol:

Meh, I stopped using it much anyhow other than a basic messages page when it got so bloated and slow with my old browser. I never shared much personal info with them. They don't even have my last name since I used my middle in its place. Anyone trying to buy my data will largely be wasting their money.

My mom spends plenty of time scrolling FB though. Explains why she was actually outside when I got home.

You mean this?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/03/t...tes/index.html

The same old debate again, just moving focus to social media this time. My only issues with social media is when people refuse to talk and socialize because of social media (but I would never call for a ban), or worse: when people use it in traffic (that should be banned).

Looks like the outage or whatever is finally starting to end. Also I just succeeded in logging onto my Facebook and Instagram accounts after hours of being unable to.

Instagram is back!

Green Arrow is a little testy!
https://twitter.com/StephenAmell/sta...37337566908417

In asking that, did he not repurpose that photo? :tlol:

Yeah, I can't tell if he's being ironic or just that gullible.

Same, I just had no use for it anymore. Constant notifications was just too much.

I find it funny how a ton of people were stressing out about Facebook and Instagram being down for several hours.

Also, it surprised me because I thought less and less people used Facebook nowadays. I thought it was something people just kept for the chat feature and to remember other people's birthdays anymore. My feed rarely shows anything by my friends anymore. Only like 4 of them seem to actively post anymore. The rest of my feed consists of ads and news articles. So really, why were so many people unable to function without Facebook for one day?

Instagram? That's a place to check out hot women in bikinis. I can see why people would be annoyed by it being down the whole day... but there's plenty of other places on the Internet providing that kind of content. :lol:

The timing of this with the Facebook "whistleblower" doing her piece is pretty suspect.

Yeah, Its a coincident that it happen a day after that interview.
Its gotta be somebody from within who sabotage it.

I don't even get on Fb much, but it irked me for a while because I play a couple of app games that tie their player accounts to it, and it meant I couldn't get into my game account. The only way I could play was as a guest, which meant starting over! F*** that noise! Had to wait until it was back up again to get my game account back up. (The one downside of linking your game to any social media server. If that goes down, so does your game!)

Apparently Facebook being down cost more than a few billions for global economy.

Interesting.

If the world goes down to the shitter due to some social network falling down, imagine what'd happen if Internet goes down as a whole. Just for a few days.
It'd be amusing, to say the least.

Around 2003 or so, there was this one time where the entire Internet was down for an entire day due to some virus or something. Imagine something like that happening nowadays.

That can't be true, can it? It wasn't just your particular ISP?

It's not true, and technically impossible to bring down the entire internet. There might've been a major outage.

It's ironic seeing people complain about facebook and/or social media using those same platforms to complain. Nothing the whistleblower said is anything we didn't already know. I don't think Facebook is the problem, the real problem is dumb people using the internet and using social media. They are literally too stupid and fall for their algorithms. The traditional internet is in a sad state but it's the user that's caused this.

People deserve Internet, which they made.

I, personally, hate social networks, since they have exuberated a lot of problem in humans and in particular new generations, such as egoism, vanity, aggrandizing and such. Not to mention made it easier for states and corporations to track people.

While I'd like to see them to go away, it is unrealistic. So the best hope is that people will learn how to handle this **** without becoming total self-absorbed assholes.

This is pretty insidious, though. This "whistleblower" has donated tons of money to the far left and previously made a living pointing out all the things that are "Racist" and "problematic."

What this is is a big Trojan Horse to stamp out (conservative) free speech. She gets in the door talking about girls on Instagram killing themselves, which even Republicans would widely get behind... but soon enough it becomes "we need to stamp out hate speech on FB, too!" without ever defining what that is. Which is the main goal. It's not about girls killing themselves or even destroying FB, it's about regulating FB so that only leftist stuff is allowed.

Watch.

Exactly all this. This is what the Lunatic Left wants... censoring speech they disagree with, aka censoring the Truth of their widespread fraud & straight up ludicrous bullsh!t.

A website shat the bed for a matter of hours, so you guys are victims political conspiracy.

Okay.

https://i.gifer.com/origin/be/be12e3...92992_w200.gif

It's not a conspiracy when she's literally saying she wants to be in charge of FB. Because she is. She's telling us her intentions in black and white. And her stance on the ever nebulous "hate speech"? A simple matter of record.

so glad i deleted that worthless, toxic social media platform before biden took office. nothing but commies, nevertrumpers and commie propaganda on facebook. it got really annoying when it flooded my newsfeed with mask ads, opportunists wanting to profit off people’s fear of the caronnavirus. gotta admit tho it was fun trolling mask ads, alot of people would bombard their comments section with anti-mask memes and comments. worthless face coverings ads were smeared all over fb leading up to the 2020 election.

No, it was very much true, it was a worldwide DDoS attack...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-da...nternet-broke/

As the article also states, there'd also been an earlier one in 2001 called Code Red. I recall both occurring for sure. Code Red definitely affected the place I was working at the time.

See my reply above. If the DNS servers are being hammered by DDoS, then lots of people aren't going to be able to go anywhere online. Admittedly the impact today of such a thing would be magnitudes higher than it was 20 years back.

Facebook changing its name to "Meta."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/tech/...nts/index.html

"A rebranding could be part of an effort to overhaul Facebook's reputation and turn the page following a series of PR nightmares, including misinformation on its platforms, content moderation failures and revelations about the negative effect its products have on some users' mental health" says CNN.

Utter nonsense.

That makes me think of Ron Artest, aka "Metta World Peace." (and apparently, he's now "Metta Sandiford-Artest."

I think "Irony" would be a more fitting name change.

Facebook isn't changing it's name, just the company similarly to how Google changed its name to Alphabet, google is still google and people still call the company google despite it being legally "alphabet". This is done mostly since they have more than one product they want to associate the name meta with, they own Instagram, Whatsapp an Oculus among others.

This also shows Facebook is doubling down on VR which is great news since the name is taken from the metaverse which is one of the cool Blockchain NFT projects that people in crypto are excited about, me included. Early metaverse feels like the early internet, a whole new world to explore.

So can we start using the phrase, "That's so Meta." in reference to Facebook...um...quirks?