Posted on 08/01/2014 2:13:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An officer from Los Angeles County took to Twitter on Friday when Facebook users called for help to report that the social media website was down.
Sgt. Burton Brink, the public information officer in La Crescenta, CA, posted a Tweet reminding people about the reasons for calling them for help.
"#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!" he wrote.
Users who tried to get on Facebook around noon EST were greeted with an apology.
"Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can," the site posted.
A message posted by a Facebook's developer around noon said the site "is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We'll update shortly."
Facebook returned about an hour later.
Women and children hit hardest.
If Free Republic is ever down, remain calm and call the National Guard, the French Foreign Legion, Batman, and Jim Thompson. Please remain CALM.
To everyone out there - if Free Republic is down....
“it’s on”
Idiocracy
Wonder if that would be part of the plot for “Sharknado3?”
Its times like this that I really do fear for the future of the Republic.
all the Kool people have already left Facebook
Agreed. If this is not proof we live in an idiocracy, I don’t know what is.
yep, low information voters are also low information citizens…..
I wish it were. I don’t see many of the phone zombies even surviving more than a few days without their “lifelines.” I’m leaning toward a “Road Warrior” type of distopian future.
Well, it’s a natural assumption. Facebook is funneling their users’ private data to LEOs and government agencies, so the fine citizens of CA did their civic duty in reporting that Facebook was offline.
Now watch next week, when Facebook has a public offering of prefered stock and other equity options. Just maybe, after this ‘taking the candy from the baby’ tease by Facebook, just maybe the interest in financially seizing a piece of the Great Facebook Monolith will have been piqued.
Some people were in a complete red panic.
Forget the women and children, my dogs were upset, because they have their own pages...
all the uncool ppl use facebook now. Time for something else
Appalling. How many heart attack victims could not get through while these cretins called 911?
Would dogs want to friend almost everyone?
They have a decent number of friends
“Facebook users called for help to report that the social media website was down”
911, forsooth—something this dire deserves a call-up of the national guard.
lol
stupid people
they’re probably the majority now
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