Facebook hit with massive DDoS attack

a reply to: visitedbythem

My buddies dad had a business phone at his house. It had multiple lines. We used to call two competing businesses, and have them answer at the same time. It was so funny listening in. They both thought the other one called. They had some funny conversations. Sometimes we call the same business, and people sitting next to each other would answer. 60s, those were the days!

These kids have no clue what a RUSH crank/ or prank if you will, calling was.
We would crack up so hard. Isn't it amazing how something so stupid could entertain us so much!

originally posted by: visitedbythem

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: network dude

the best thing that could happen to everyone is for all social media to stop existing. next would be to make your phone only a phone. If you doubt me, ask someone who lived in the 80s.

AND.........We can crank call people again.

Ring ring..........heavy breathing, ha ha ha, click!
And they will never know who did it!

AND........ they will laugh, or get annoyed and MOVE on with their life!
That is how it should be!!

My buddies dad had a business phone at his house. It had multiple lines. We used to call two competing businesses, and have them answer at the same time. It was so funny listening in. They both thought the other one called. They had some funny conversations. Sometimes we call the same business, and people sitting next to each other would answer. 60s, those were the days!

My father used a voice pager back in the 80's for his business and I used to call that prefix hoping that whoever was out in the public answering their pager and I would leave a god awful message for them.

a reply to: Bigburgh

As reported first at 10am there was a Whistle Blower.
Then they said an employee did some "update" thus causing this huge issue.

I'm telling you, sometimes the biggest things happen not maliciously but someone just not knowing what they are doing.
I've seen it so many times.
Maybe FB couldn't find enough workers 😂😁

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: TheRedneck

My point is, there are other avenues of communication. We communicated just fine before Facebook.

Ok, I'm going to zap out of nostalgia and back into reality.

We need to stop lying to ourselves about Facebook. Yes we communicated before, but never as efficiently as we have with FB. It took us into a new realm, a FREE real.
Let me give you an example.

Being a military brat when we would move overseas we either could write letters to our statesides friends, or we could call them at a cost of about $75 per call. I'm not even joking. So basically we lost touch with most of our friends. Facebook solved that. Facebook also gave cell phone companies a run for their money. Telecom is a scary beast. They would take your last cent if they could. Facebook stopped that in a way because they allowed people to communicate in a similar way to phone, but BETTER. There is no going back.

You put that perfectly. That argument is 100% why they are a public utility, and should be treated the same as a town square. What they are getting away with is only because of the amount of money they spread around. Without that they would have been regulated and we would have had a regulated social media competitive marketplace years ago. The root of the problem is our politicians not being held accountable for taking the bribes and not protecting their constituents from these giant companies.

originally posted by: ColoradoTemplar

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: frogs453

AskJeeves

😪 Me shedding a tear of nostalgia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we please go back to AskJeeves days!

I remember the good ole days of Q-link and Compuserve back when I had my Commodore64 and just a tape drive and 300baud Modem.

Back when 13.5MB's of RAM was huge?

I didn't have a computer until 1999. We spent all of our time riding bikes until we got licenses and then it turned into driving around for hours and listening to music.

originally posted by: Tempter
Haven't read through the thread yet, but does anyone else here have a thought that maybe they are scrubbing some data?

The Zuck is destroying evidence that could be gathered by FB crawlers after last night's interview? So he intentionally had them bring it down to cover his butt?

a reply to: ColoradoTemplar

My father used a voice pager back in the 80's for his business and I used to call that prefix hoping that whoever was out in the public answering their pager and I would leave a god awful message for them.

Oh my goodness, I have to share my pager story now.
Sooo back in the day, I was in IT for telecom and pagers were my specialty.
We would tell employees that EVERYTHING was monitored. Back then we had logs and could read EVERY single message.

I would literally grab my lunch and read away. It was better than a soap opera! Lots of affairs. "oh baby this, Oh baby that". Some of you guys were very sappy and disgusting! We could also see who was paging who and what time. We could see some shady stuff between departments too.

a reply to: shaemac

While cell towers are still up, get the info you need by texting or calling. Time to revert back to the good ol days when we didn't have social media.

Well I use Facebook because that is where the demographic for potential clients and students are for my business.
Yes I have a personal page besides my business page, but I also have my private student page.
So tonight I was supposed to be teaching 18 students via zoom. Just 6 turned up. This regular class has 100% turnout normally. The 6 that did already had the zoom link. One student said another one had called her to pass on the message that the internet was down in her area (Northern Ireland). One student was in Spain. So yes, Facebook has expanded my student base for my teaching not just in the UK but world wide. I have students in Canada, Australia and USA to name major countries.
Like anything else, it depends what you use platforms for and what your focus is on. Without Facebook, my business would not have grown and I certainly would not have been able to sustain it during the last 18 months of you know what without Facebook.
Rainbows
Jane

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: visitedbythem

My buddies dad had a business phone at his house. It had multiple lines. We used to call two competing businesses, and have them answer at the same time. It was so funny listening in. They both thought the other one called. They had some funny conversations. Sometimes we call the same business, and people sitting next to each other would answer. 60s, those were the days!

These kids have no clue what a RUSH crank/ or prank if you will, calling was.
We would crack up so hard. Isn't it amazing how something so stupid could entertain us so much!

Now I'm going to have to dig out my old Jerky Boys CDs from the 90s (if you don't know what these are I feel terrible for you).

originally posted by: Signals
It’s not just FB, it’s a ton of sites. I’m surprised ATS is still up.

This is only the beginning.

I was surprised to see ATS up too..

a reply to: JAGStorm
Maybe their so called Fact Checkers walked out .....couldn't have everybody posting what they liked now could they?


Rainbows
Jane

originally posted by: LSU2018

originally posted by: ColoradoTemplar

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: frogs453

AskJeeves

😪 Me shedding a tear of nostalgia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we please go back to AskJeeves days!

I remember the good ole days of Q-link and Compuserve back when I had my Commodore64 and just a tape drive and 300baud Modem.

Back when 13.5MB's of RAM was huge?

I didn't have a computer until 1999. We spent all of our time riding bikes until we got licenses and then it turned into driving around for hours and listening to music.

Don't forget 4 or 5 people trying to scrounge up enough change to buy a gallon of gas!

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: ColoradoTemplar

My father used a voice pager back in the 80's for his business and I used to call that prefix hoping that whoever was out in the public answering their pager and I would leave a god awful message for them.

Oh my goodness, I have to share my pager story now.
Sooo back in the day, I was in IT for telecom and pagers were my specialty.
We would tell employees that EVERYTHING was monitored. Back then we had logs and could read EVERY single message.

I would literally grab my lunch and read away. It was better than a soap opera! Lots of affairs. "oh baby this, Oh baby that". Some of you guys were very sappy and disgusting! We could also see who was paging who and what time. We could see some shady stuff between departments too.

Haha!!!! Thats funny!!! There used to be a website along time ago called the PLA or phone losers of america and they would exploit peoples information or loser of the week and also hijack a companies incoming phone calls and play with the customers heads.

a reply to: TrollMagnet

The last time I looked at a Facebook web page was last fall. It looked wonky and like it was from 1998.

Was that typical? I can't believe a lot of people would be complaining about a website of that low quality being taken off line.

originally posted by: LSU2018

originally posted by: ColoradoTemplar

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: frogs453

AskJeeves

😪 Me shedding a tear of nostalgia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we please go back to AskJeeves days!

I remember the good ole days of Q-link and Compuserve back when I had my Commodore64 and just a tape drive and 300baud Modem.

Back when 13.5MB's of RAM was huge?

I didn't have a computer until 1999. We spent all of our time riding bikes until we got licenses and then it turned into driving around for hours and listening to music.

32kb of RAM

originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: shaemac

While cell towers are still up, get the info you need by texting or calling. Time to revert back to the good ol days when we didn't have social media.

There's always this old standby ...

originally posted by: shaemac

originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: shaemac

I think it matters because hundreds of thousands of people use these platforms to communicate. If they are controlled by TPTB and go down - hundreds of thousands of people cannot communicate and share information.

Yes, I remember the days before even the Internet existed. There was no news. No one ever heard about the assassination of JFK, or the Korean War, or anything like that. Heck, we didn't even know who the President was!

TheRedneck

I am not even discounting what you said.
But when the government wants us to stop sharing info....I know we need to do the opposite.

For example, the parent groups I am in, we share valuable info on the critical race theory that is being pushed in our schools. We share stories in the various schools about abuse from staff over masks.....about vax info, etc etc.....We need a platform to share this info. And FB is all we have, unfortunately.

The school/parent groups is just one factor. While ATS provides a wealth of info....it doesnt work on a small time scale such as local issues.

I know you get where I am coming from

I'm in a parent group like that. My wife and I were fortunate enough to yank our son out of public school and put him in a non-public, non-government seeking school last month.

originally posted by: LSU2018

originally posted by: ColoradoTemplar

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: frogs453

AskJeeves

😪 Me shedding a tear of nostalgia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we please go back to AskJeeves days!

I remember the good ole days of Q-link and Compuserve back when I had my Commodore64 and just a tape drive and 300baud Modem.

Back when 13.5MB's of RAM was huge?

I didn't have a computer until 1999. We spent all of our time riding bikes until we got licenses and then it turned into driving around for hours and listening to music.

When windows 3.1 was out I had a golf game on 18 discs. I disc for each hole. It took forever to load but when the 1st DOOM came out I was hooked!

a reply to: Serdgiam

When was the last time it was down for 6 hours and counting? I remember it going down for 30 minutes once and Zuckernerd issuing an apology for the millions of distraught teeny-boppers who were traumatized by the boondoggle.