Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down
Source: CNN
(CNN)Facebook's week just went from bad to worse.
Facebook (FB), Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages midday Monday, according to public statements from the three Facebook services.
"We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products," Facebook said on Twitter. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."
Outage tracking site Down Detector logged tens of thousands of reports for each of the services. Facebook's own site would not load at all for about an hour on Monday; Instagram and WhatsApp were accessible, but could not load new content or send messages.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/tech/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage/index.html
This is almost certain to be the largest social media outage in history. Feels like 2005 for me.
FarPoint
(12,351 posts)Not loading for me either....
634-5789
(4,175 posts)Bucky
(53,998 posts)calimary
(81,232 posts)Dakota Flint
(219 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,839 posts)Possible reasons: technical, criminal hackery or cyber warfare.
Some of my livelihood and my key friends livelihoods depend to a degree on Facebook.
Dakota Flint
(219 posts)the need to break their addiction to one of the greatest threats to humanity.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)China claims their event organizing capabilities are used for nefarious purposes.
Bucky
(53,998 posts)hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)and concerning to me only from the standpoint this could reflect hackers going after other targets like this in the future. If it is Zuckerberg sending a message then I hope this backfires spectacularly. If it is hackers, then I hope the US and our allies finally get tough on such actors/acts.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Think it was on 60 Minutes.
apparantly FB employees were pre-warned of what may be exposed in that interview.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Link to tweet
Remember the angry hate content of FB in the 2016 campaign?
Political parties buried HRC's name, ground it into the dirt while her successes & lifetime humantitarian works went silent.
Her concerns & future policy, words only she spoke, at the time were drowned out by vitriol, hate, & oppo messaging by MSM & FB leading the charge.
Supreme Court
Citizen's United
Fairness Doctrine
Women & Children & poverty
Etc.
FB needs to be busted up for capitalizing on the destruction of our Democracy.
Walleye
(31,017 posts)malthaussen
(17,193 posts)vanlassie
(5,670 posts)tomorrow?
Polybius
(15,395 posts)Zuck thinks he's slick.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)for folks who want to lose their minds on conspiracy theories
Even on Freeperville, they're claiming China is attacking us since we don't have tough guy Donald Trump.
Archae
(46,327 posts)I do NOT get my news, weather or sports from Facebook.
Not at all.
I use Messenger to converse with two of my sisters.
And I get messages from friends.
hollygolively
(87 posts)I'm an IT person. I hate the fact so many people think FB or Wikipedia are reliable sources for information. They are not.
Facebook has, clearly, for a long time, been all about profit and not about making the world a better place by connecting everyone.
sdfernando
(4,935 posts)I don't do any social media at all...No twitter, snapchat, whatsapp, tiktok, youtube....nothing! If my friends can't call or at least text my cell then too bad.
I do post some news items but I can't imagine having FB as a primary information source.
Otherwise it's just about sharing goofy memes and chatting with folks in Messenger
I get NYT's alerts and come to DU, but I never rely on Facebook for news or politics. The political discussions I have tend to be in private groups with like-minded people.
I keep up with friends and family and share jokes and memes. For me, it truly is "social".
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Zuckerface linked them last year after he bought Oculus.
I hate him with a passion. And I don't hate many people other then TFG and his close enablers.
ShepKat
(383 posts)I better tell everyone and post it on fac..... oh wait lol
Nittersing
(6,360 posts)NNadir
(33,515 posts)I never joined Facebook so I'm never going to know what I'm not going to miss.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Marthe48
(16,949 posts)Yesterday words with friends 2 was down all day. between dejoy and outages online, we'll have to go back to ham radios and cb's.
Budi
(15,325 posts)SNL should do a skit
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)I heard a joke a few years ago: The wagon train is circled for the night, campfires glowing in the dark, the sound of drums in the air. The assistant wagon master meets the wagon master and says, "I don't like the sound of those drums!" And the wagon master says, "Neither do I, but their regular guy is off sick tonight."
I still laugh.
Budi
(15,325 posts)I s'pose drums & smoke signals were the original form of 'social media', then.
Drum
(9,156 posts)Shell_Seas
(3,333 posts)Marthe48
(16,949 posts)You Tube, DU (TG).
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)I thought it was my computer because everything else seems to work.
Champp
(2,114 posts)How Republican is that?
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)"Facebook is having technical problems. Many users are unable to connect."
It's subtle, but it's kind of a standard Republican-values gambit to shift blame on to others.
TFG did it all the time. He claimed ownership of everything "good" that happened, and always always always blamed others for the bad shit he caused. It's the Republican playbook, and it is slimey.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)There was no blame-shifting. I can only imagine if they actually said "many users" then someone would have complained about THAT as well since it appears to be nearly ALL users, and "many" is an understatement.
Honestly.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 5, 2021, 07:52 AM - Edit history (1)
And reiterate my point: it is standard Republican strategy to always blame others. By not saying "FB is having problems..." it is in my estimation a subtle, but meaningful shirk of responsibility. They are saying and implying: the users have a problem, not plainly admitting: FB has a problem.
So you can give them a pass on this example, as you are so inclined, but if you look about the twists and turns of republican-style rhetoric, you will--I contend--see this sort of thing over and over and over again. It's what they do: dodge responsibility, blame others.
It's a fundamental perversion of truth. Totally darkside.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)hmmm....
This article claims what most likely happened is their network engineers pushed a configuration update that inadvertently locked them out. So they need to fix things at their local data centers before reconnecting to public DNS services again.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-oculus-are-down-heres-what-we-know/
Budi
(15,325 posts)Consequences of too big & politically driven, to fail.
Or so they thought.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)It happened just after I typed "fnord."
davepdx
(224 posts)rdking647
(5,113 posts)from what i heard their DNS record got deleted.
(think of the DNS record as a roadmap to an address. you have the address but dont know how to get there)
Budi
(15,325 posts)"think of the DNS record as a roadmap to an address. you have the address but dont know how to get there"
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Basically removed them from the internets. The fact it's taking so long to resolve this is concerning, though.
zehnkatzen
(784 posts)Gotta let my online friends know.
Better log on to facebook and ...
... ah.
I made a blanket fort on the couch, curled up like a hermit
ashredux
(2,605 posts)Timing timing timing
Budi
(15,325 posts)I believe the Mueller report mentioned social media, & how it was used to drive prepared propaganda favorable to some & unfavorable to others, on a massive scale.
We all saw it as it happened.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Facebook doesn't have much competition
Budi
(15,325 posts)Cannot recall the name tho.
It was an early one.
Found it.
ICQ
(I seek you) ☺
Anyone remember using it?
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)none of them had the tremendous ad revenue of FaceBook though
Budi
(15,325 posts)Polybius
(15,395 posts)I still log on sometimes to them.
Budi
(15,325 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)that's old school
Budi
(15,325 posts)The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
A former systems operator logs back in to the original computer-based social network.
Snip
Once the web arrived in the mid-1990s, it seemed inevitable that the BBS would die off.
But every mass extinction has its holdouts. Even today, a small community of people still run and call BBSes. Many seek the digital intimacy they lost years ago; 373 BBSes still operate, according to the Telnet BBS Guide, mostly in the United States. Many are set up to be accessible via internet-connected tools like Telnet, a text-based remote-login protocol originally designed for mainframes.
More...
It still exists!
Auggie
(31,167 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)'All roads lead to Putin'~ Speaker Pelosi quote.
BoomaofBandM
(1,771 posts)LeftInTX
(25,291 posts)pfitz59
(10,376 posts)Thought they might have banned me after all my time served in FB jail!
apnu
(8,756 posts)That this network mistake outage would happen to them, on this this day, after the 60 minutes thing is shocking.
The paranoid side of me says this is intentional, the timing is too convenient and smells like theyre scrubbing the site hard.
And like all things FB, its heavy handed and easily seen.
The not-paranoid side says, holy incompetence Batman! FBs change controls must be trash! What ninny is running the show there?!
Budi
(15,325 posts)There are some powerful people with billions invested in the desruction of American Democracy.
Someone's protecting themselves.
apnu
(8,756 posts)
that certainly is the affect. Zuck and the board arent fascist party members. Theyre incompetent corporate animals mucking about with things they know little about. Theyre attempting to remove human emotion from business decisions under the laughable data driven moniker. As weve learned, they are quite vested in human emotion, crassly recognizing engagement is deeper when the content is inflammatory.
I believe what they built is a very naive system that relies on the good intentions of its users. But the users have ill intent.
They, Zuck and co, are holding on for dear life to the monster they created. Much like the GOP, few are actual fascists or authoritarians, but they hang on to all that because it benefits them financially at the moment.
Budi
(15,325 posts)We're all just lab rats to the monied & powerful.
As Frances Haugen said in her 60 Minutes interview, over and over the company has made decisions that prioritize profit and growth over public benefit and safety. (Just as most other corporations would do if they had the freedom from regulation that Facebook enjoys.)
My mention of "data driven" and "inflammatory" was lifted directly from Haugen's interview.
I work for a big company. I have peers who are in bigger companies. We speak regularly on the folly of "data driven" business decisions.
It sounds nice, but what it really is, MBA by way of spreadsheet. It is everything Orwell (and others) warned us about.
LiberalFighter
(50,912 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,446 posts)I'm good with that.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Polybius
(15,395 posts)It's the largest and longest social media outage in world history. It will be talked about for decades to come.
Bucky
(53,998 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)Took everything down ?
ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)It's now 2:21 and still, down. That's a lot of lost ad revenue!
Gotta go out and do some errands. We'll see if anything's changed by the time I get back.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)though I suppose it is possible. That's okay, I was busy working on something else.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)of left leaners on FB. I report and hide ads or posts I don't like. We are a tight little group. I don't see the RW crap most folks see.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)I unfriended a small handful of people a long time ago and most of what I see now is very reasonable.
tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)I decided to post something nasty or hatefull today. I have been posting a "Happy Sunday" note asking others to join in with their happy moments of the week gone by. Then I found only anger motivates the people. So I can't post a piss them off post. Now I am angry.
videohead5
(2,172 posts)Facebook has been shutdown by hackers. This is not a regular outage. This smells like hackers to me.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)start regulating blatantly false lies that recklessly is intended to misinform and damage the country. Make social media and media platforms responsible for allowing false statements intended to harm others. Regulate these platforms and take away their platforms as a consequence for allowing others to peddle harmful disinformation and harmful speech. Without an ounce of evidence platforms should not permit nutty cures not based in any credible science. Get the Alex Jones and Carlsons off the air.
ananda
(28,858 posts)He was a Trump cohort.
durablend
(7,460 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)I'm firing up Netscape and logging into MySpace and Vine!
Polybius
(15,395 posts)Wonder if I'm still rated an 8+.
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)From people obviously ESL challenged, and that causes strange results in eBay software. Wonder if it's related to Facebook, Instagram, and GOP TX hackers.
Lasher
(27,579 posts)The Fifty Stateman
(76 posts)I can do without all three, especially Zuck's garbage heap!
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)I don't think anyone could have composed a more ironic phrase.
Lmao.
FB had to communicate via Twitter!
pfitz59
(10,376 posts)is acting strangely. Not all functions working. IT has a job to do.