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Question of the day
Tuesday, Oct 5, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller * I have a post-surgery dental appointment today. It shouldn’t take too long, but I really have no idea, so blogging could be light this afternoon. * The Question: What did you do during yesterday’s massive Facebook outage? (Outage length explained here, by the way.)
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- Cool Papa Bell - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:12 pm:
Don’t have a Facebook profile, don’t use Instagram. I’m on Twitter and thats enough.
- Blue Dog - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:15 pm:
Whats facebook?
- Joe Bidenopolous - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:15 pm:
No FB and no IG so I just kept on doing what I do - being productive and staying rational
- Louis G Atsaves - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:16 pm:
Missed it completely. Read about it after the fact. Real life causes those things to happen sometimes.
- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:16 pm:
Saw it in the news. Had a little smirk of schadenfreude on my face for about five minutes. I don’t really do social media. The Capitol Fax is my only social network activity.
- In_The_Middle - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:17 pm:
Got some exercise in by running around the neighborhood sharing pictures and memes since I couldn’t do it online. (snark)
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:22 pm:
I got more work done than usual. Also, it wasn’t FB that I missed, it was the extended CapFax outage that really hurt.
- Flapdoddle - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:30 pm:
. . . a little smirk of schadenfreude . . .
Yeah, same here — except the smirk got bigger the longer the outage lasted. Not a fan.
- Independent - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:32 pm:
Recalled why I killed my Facebook account almost a decade ago.
- SOIL M - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:35 pm:
Continued with a normal day. Dont do Social Media.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:40 pm:
Deleted fb account 20 years ago when daughters were in high school. Decided I trusted them enough to not spy on them.
- Give Me A Break - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:42 pm:
No FB, do some twitter. Never found anyone all that interesting that I care to know details of the lives.
- Manchester - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:45 pm:
I’ve never been on Facebook so it didn’t faze me in the least. I have friends who live and die by Facebook to the point they post what they are cooking for dinner. Count me out. I can get my daily quota of misinformation from way too many other sources.
- Sayitaintso - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:47 pm:
I cheered and hoped it would continue forever.
- twowaystreet - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:55 pm:
==Deleted fb account 20 years ago when daughters were in high school.==
I think your timeline might be off by a bit… FB wasn’t available to the public until 2006. lol
- ddp76 - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:55 pm:
I came to capitolfax which was also down
- JoanP - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:56 pm:
It didn’t affect me, as I don’t use Facebook or Instagram.
I just did what I had planned to do - gave a couple of tours at a FLW house, did laundry, had a Zoom board meeting, continued reading Ross King’s “The Bookseller of Florence”.
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:01 pm:
Did not know anything about it until evening news had a story on it.
- cermak_rd - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:20 pm:
I worked and at lunch checked out twitter where I found reference to the facebook outage and laughed while imagining people waking up and asking themselves, now why was I against vaccines?
- happy guy - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:24 pm:
tying this as a reboot (formerly blue line). i will keep things short and sweet and without banned punctuation going forward. im just gonna be a happy guy.
- happy guy - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:25 pm:
facebook bad. happy to see it go for that short time. people too angry. made more angry by facebook. would be good if facebook did that every day. take the temp down a bit.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:25 pm:
Actually enjoyed an interesting technical discussion at work during the outage about what might have caused the outage.
- Pot calling kettle - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:27 pm:
I was working…heard it reported on NPR…by the time I got on Facebook, everything seemed to be running. (I was about to type everything was “fine,” but this is Facebook we’re talking about.)
- Chicago Cynic - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:32 pm:
Worked.
- The Opinions Bureau - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:34 pm:
I made myself a Google Calendar reminder to copy down birthdays once Facebook was back up. And another one to go buy a paper datebook to prepare for the inevitable Google crash.
- walker - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:34 pm:
Facebook was out?
- Anyone Remember - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:35 pm:
It was Tom from MySpace.
- Drake Mallard - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:49 pm:
I set my hair on fire and ran around in circles screaming like a little school girl.
- Montrose - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:54 pm:
Fired up Friendster.
- Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:06 pm:
I don’t have an account.
- Dotnonymous - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:06 pm:
Fired up a doobie…and thought to myself…how sickly dependent our society has become on social (Me)dia…Me…my stuff…all better, fancier and more exclusive than yours…sexier too.
- Bruce( no not him) - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:10 pm:
I was on the road, so didn’t even notice.
Later I got a chuckle of all the comments “on facebook” about what a soulless, evil company they are.
- Tommydanger - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:11 pm:
I’m not on any social media platform. I find Capitol Fax to meet all my opinion sharing needs.
- West Side the Best Side - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:29 pm:
The only anti-social media I use is Instagram to check out the daily deals at a local brewery. Never posted anything but somehow a few people are following me. If they follow me to the brewery that’s okay, but otherwise it’s kind of creepy.
- Joe Schmoe - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:32 pm:
I understand state government productivity reached a 20-month high yesterday….
- Glenn - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:48 pm:
==Whats facebook?==
That’s what I came to say but then found it had already been said.
- Leslie K - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:16 pm:
Continued my regular day blissfully unaware because I don’t do Facebook etc. Might get a Twitter account some day. That’s about it.
===laughed while imagining people waking up and asking themselves, now why was I against vaccines?===
Loved this
- Morningstar - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:22 pm:
I compulsively checked Capitol Fax every few minutes. /s
- G'Kar - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:22 pm:
Graded student’s exams.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:27 pm:
“FB wasn’t available to the public until 2006. lol”
The wisenheimers is kicking in. Seems like 20 years ago.
- flea - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 5:07 pm:
picked corn all day. missed it.
- MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 7:10 pm:
Made fun of it on Twitter.
– MrJM
- Zoomer - Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 9:42 pm:
Co-facilitated a presentation to a bunch of school and community college admin on the significance of K-12 Computer Science Education.. in a state that currently appropriates $0.00 toward the subject.