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* 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.)

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:08 pm

Comments

Don’t have a Facebook profile, don’t use Instagram. I’m on Twitter and thats enough.

Comment by Cool Papa Bell Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:12 pm
Whats facebook?

Comment by Blue Dog 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

Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:15 pm
Missed it completely. Read about it after the fact. Real life causes those things to happen sometimes.

Comment by Louis G Atsaves 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.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:16 pm
Got some exercise in by running around the neighborhood sharing pictures and memes since I couldn’t do it online. (snark)

Comment by In_The_Middle Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:17 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.

Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:22 pm
. . . a little smirk of schadenfreude . . .

Yeah, same here — except the smirk got bigger the longer the outage lasted. Not a fan.

Comment by Flapdoddle Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:30 pm
Recalled why I killed my Facebook account almost a decade ago.

Comment by Independent Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:32 pm
Continued with a normal day. Dont do Social Media.

Comment by SOIL M Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:35 pm
Deleted fb account 20 years ago when daughters were in high school. Decided I trusted them enough to not spy on them.

Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:40 pm
No FB, do some twitter. Never found anyone all that interesting that I care to know details of the lives.

Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:42 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.

Comment by Manchester Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:45 pm
I cheered and hoped it would continue forever.

Comment by Sayitaintso Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:47 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

Comment by twowaystreet Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:55 pm
I came to capitolfax which was also down

Comment by ddp76 Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:55 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”.

Comment by JoanP Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 1:56 pm
Did not know anything about it until evening news had a story on it.

Comment by zatoichi Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:01 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?

Comment by cermak_rd Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:20 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.

Comment by happy guy Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:24 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.

Comment by happy guy 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.

Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:25 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.)

Comment by Pot calling kettle Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:27 pm
Worked.

Comment by Chicago Cynic Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:32 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.

Comment by The Opinions Bureau Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:34 pm
Facebook was out?

Comment by walker Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:34 pm
It was Tom from MySpace.

Comment by Anyone Remember Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:35 pm
I set my hair on fire and ran around in circles screaming like a little school girl.

Comment by Drake Mallard Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:49 pm
Fired up Friendster.

Comment by Montrose Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 2:54 pm
I don’t have an account.

Comment by Cheryl44 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.

Comment by Dotnonymous Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:06 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.

Comment by Bruce( no not him) Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:10 pm
I’m not on any social media platform. I find Capitol Fax to meet all my opinion sharing needs.

Comment by Tommydanger Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:11 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.

Comment by West Side the Best Side Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:29 pm
I understand state government productivity reached a 20-month high yesterday….

Comment by Joe Schmoe Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:32 pm
==Whats facebook?==

That’s what I came to say but then found it had already been said.

Comment by Glenn Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 3:48 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

Comment by Leslie K Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:16 pm
I compulsively checked Capitol Fax every few minutes. /s

Comment by Morningstar Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:22 pm
Graded student’s exams.

Comment by G'Kar Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:22 pm
“FB wasn’t available to the public until 2006. lol”

The wisenheimers is kicking in. Seems like 20 years ago.

Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 4:27 pm
picked corn all day. missed it.

Comment by flea Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 5:07 pm
Made fun of it on Twitter.

– MrJM

Comment by MisterJayEm Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 7:10 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.

Comment by Zoomer Tuesday, Oct 5, 21 @ 9:42 pm