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Rounak Datta
October 5, 2021 at 11:47 pm
Got it ????????
J.D. Vision
October 5, 2021 at 11:48 pm
Yeah whatever ????…
We would be better off without them anyway, along with Main Stream Media.
VOLTRON
October 6, 2021 at 12:38 am
They definitely be banned. There brainwashing people for profit. It’s disgusting.
ThexBorg
October 5, 2021 at 11:48 pm
DNS
Bob Lee Swagger
October 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm
Just a Coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress about Facebook during the outage
Scorpio Phoenix
October 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm
LIES
TdyYrLove
October 6, 2021 at 12:00 am
I never even noticed they were down.
D M
October 6, 2021 at 12:00 am
Yeah thats what Mark Zuckerbitch has told you. Don’t believe that low life for one sec what he says. I’d say it was deliberately done by him to change or delete things that has just been said from a employee regarding money over people’s safety etc.
Wouldn’t piss on this guy if he was on fire.
Amit Ezuthachan
October 6, 2021 at 12:00 am
lies
David Giles
October 6, 2021 at 12:06 am
Would have been wonderful if they were all down for good.
Life Game Changer
October 6, 2021 at 12:09 am
It’s crazy how people have invented stuff like this
Jason Fisher
October 6, 2021 at 12:14 am
Yeah ok ????
Shayna Kaiser
October 6, 2021 at 12:15 am
We all know what happened. They shut everything down to delete evidence of their wrongdoing!
Brian B.
October 6, 2021 at 12:16 am
Mark Zuckerberg lost $6,000,000,000 in worth today! (Yeah, that’s Six Billion..)
So, something good came out of this…
3min3mStan
October 6, 2021 at 12:18 am
We are anonymous
zrobeast
October 6, 2021 at 12:34 am
Except we know your name is Stan.
3min3mStan
October 6, 2021 at 12:37 am
@zrobeast Turn the threes around
Rashad
October 6, 2021 at 12:21 am
*It didn’t last long enough*
ABSOLUTELY ???? ANTIFA
October 6, 2021 at 12:25 am
“ DELETING EVIDENCE “
ABSOLUTELY ???? ANTIFA
October 6, 2021 at 12:25 am
“ SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY “
nwright28
October 6, 2021 at 12:28 am
????????????????????????????????????????
bugman728
October 6, 2021 at 12:33 am
Convenient
Braska Bani
October 6, 2021 at 12:42 am
Good
Damian ten Bohmer
October 6, 2021 at 12:52 am
Let’s try to have a Facebook Free day every Monday from now on. ????????
Quentin Manson
October 6, 2021 at 1:05 am
A much needed break for some
Matt
October 6, 2021 at 1:09 am
Too bad it was only down for 6 hours and not forever.
CouchCommander5000
October 6, 2021 at 1:12 am
I’m not sure which people I detest more. Facebook, or Instagram junkies. Absolutely disgusting human beings.
Jay Gatsby
October 6, 2021 at 1:19 am
Can’t live without them
Jermaine
October 6, 2021 at 1:27 am
The network guys always get blamed lol. That’s I.T for you
Npc I'm knot
October 6, 2021 at 5:52 am
Thats why you use fake info for stuff liek taht lol
Aharon Robinson
October 6, 2021 at 6:17 am
As an engineer this still isn’t making sense to me that there is this large of a bottleneck
EpicStark
October 6, 2021 at 7:11 pm
????????????same ????????♂️
Oliver Smith
October 6, 2021 at 9:08 pm
Does “large of a bottleneck” mean it is narrow or wide?
nashathedog
October 6, 2021 at 6:39 am
I imagine Gen Z & younger all threw a fit. ????
jack27nikk
October 6, 2021 at 6:58 am
I wish it continued for some days ????????that could be peaceful
Stéphane Edwardson
October 6, 2021 at 7:11 am
Please, no more vertical videos!
Logi Master
October 6, 2021 at 7:15 am
“How dependent people are of Facebooks services”
Am I the only one that didn’t even notice any of Facebooks services went down till I read the news the next day?
Jazz_K
October 6, 2021 at 7:53 am
I get social media like Facebook and not having an account, but don’t you use WhatsApp? I feel like it’s the most used messaging app. That’s the only reason why I instantly knew something was happening with servers.
Logi Master
October 6, 2021 at 8:24 am
@Jazz_K Nope, I use discord to talk to my friends and my family just send text messages as they still have dumb phones.
Jazz_K
October 6, 2021 at 8:37 am
@Logi Master haha fair enough, pesky dumb phones
Oliver Smith
October 6, 2021 at 9:10 pm
WhatsApp is used by literally billions of people as the main way of communication with others in their life.
Brookville Kansas
October 6, 2021 at 7:52 am
Basically fbook reminding the world we own you and we are a global powerhouse, don’t forget that peasants…
Brookville Kansas
October 6, 2021 at 8:02 am
A large portion of developing countries economies depend on facebook to conduct business, it allows businesses to communicate with customers as well. These are areas of the world that have populations that are unbanked or underbanked. Estimated at 4.9 billion people in the world fall under this category (why crypto currencies are powerful). We don’t feel the effects of an outage due to us having mature markets and banking systems. But this was huge for 1/2 the globe whose commerce came to a standstill.
Mich Washington
October 6, 2021 at 8:26 am
Sounds sus to me….
eric brooks
October 6, 2021 at 9:31 am
Who cares? Never had facebook, NEVER will.
Cameron Tait
October 6, 2021 at 9:50 am
Yeah right.
Hector G.
October 6, 2021 at 10:08 am
It nothing else, this should wake people up to not having such a dependency on Facebook or any other platform.
yogibearstie
October 6, 2021 at 11:38 am
6 hours to bring up the DNS server?
Nixa Eagle
October 6, 2021 at 1:40 pm
Fklberg delete delete delete
DSN 1
October 6, 2021 at 2:18 pm
I was sleeping through it so didn’t notice
Cosmic Jerry
October 6, 2021 at 2:52 pm
???? ☕ ???? I can’t Log into Facebook.
Chris Jones
October 6, 2021 at 3:08 pm
I didn’t even notice! Wake up and leave social media sheeple! It’s killing society!
Ahsan
October 6, 2021 at 4:32 pm
????????I’m pretty sure that they did it to hide documents and data related to illegal methods that they were using to make people addicted to Facebook and illegal tactics to make people depressed. PLUS, to diverge their attention from the those issues to this problem. As, recently a Facebook employee has released a documents regard illegal methods that Facebook use to make people depress
phil pugliese
October 6, 2021 at 5:12 pm
O.K. must be true, sun light off of swamp gas and Venus is UFO’s, Bribedon won the election, the crooks are just hiding evidence.
ninpo14
October 6, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Great reporting!
Jussainwuturthinkn
October 6, 2021 at 9:31 pm
I notice happier people while they were offline.
Susana Dias Johnson
October 6, 2021 at 9:33 pm
DON’T. YOU. BELIEVE. IT.
THEY DELIBERATELY
PUT A “FIREWALL”
BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE GLOBAL
REVEAL OF THEIR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
THE ENTIRE ATTEMPT WAS TO SILENCE THE TRUTH FROM OUTTING.
Monte VanNortwick
October 6, 2021 at 11:50 pm
A few more details please…
Tony
October 7, 2021 at 12:13 am
Didn’t even notice
Dave N
October 7, 2021 at 4:07 pm
No they were just trying to delete the dirt they got themselves into.
H. Mandelene
October 7, 2021 at 6:52 pm
I think their explanation is a lie because stuff I deleted in facebook are back again.
Why would they restore data if the problem was a network problem????
John Gyver
October 7, 2021 at 7:33 pm
They unfortunately turned it on back again….