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.
It explains a little more how Obambi is still polling at 40% favorable...the idiot electorate is too busy lighting up the 911 lines to let the police know that they can’t ‘like’ something on Facebook...
Hurricane Katrina was a glimpse into what will happen, if anything is interrupted for more than a week - power, Facebook, food, etc.
We’re becoming helpless like farm animals (well some of us are).
It was horrible. It took almost a minute to boot up this morning but I was one of the lucky ones. It almost worked. It was worse than the flood last year that shut down everything for 4 months. The post office was closed for 6 months./s
I will have multiple schadenfreude orgasms the day FB dies.
Well don’t call Facebook. All you will get are stupid, pointless, wonky emails signed by “The Facebook Team”.
Why has there never been Idiocracy II? It would be a blockbuster.
It’s impossible to imagine anyone being this stupid and self-involved, but there it is.
They need to talk a political poll of all the idgiots (TM - me) (idits + idiot) that called the 911 for Facebook being down. Must be running 90% liberal.
Is this real or satire? It was down but only for a few minutes. Why would anyone call 911 about this? Nuts.
Facebook was down? Darn. I was face down in a book, and missed it.
When he tornado hit this area a few years ago, Facebook was one of the few ways to get info about ice, gas, etc. I kept my phone charged by using my car battery.
All their plants will die in Farmville.
“An officer from Los Angeles County took to Twitter...”
Uh, that might be part of the problem right there.
I’m surprised our fearless leader din’t declare martial law.
A vivid example of just how Media-centric, and media-driven people had become.
Can you just imagine the terror at OFA/Acorn, knowing that they wouldn’t be able to feed more BS to their sheeple?
Imagine if all the Smart Phones stopped working
More like if FR, WRSA, Drudge, SipseyStreet, Codrea, APN & SHTFPlan are down....
Then it’s all hands on deck & “Wagon’s HO”
FR has been down enough for me to know not to hit the panic button until all other usual suspects are offline.
That’s the time to panic :-)
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