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Man I would lose contact with a lot of friends if that were to happen
Are they really your friends then?
yes why? Are all your friends in the same place in the world with the same phone number? That would seem odd
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Even if half that, still crazy, no?
And that’s just Facebook. Pretty much everyone outside of the us depends on WhatsApp to communicate. From regular people to businesses.
why do people say "outside of the US". Everybody I know in the US uses whatsapp
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#853every one panicked that they got hacked. i got a slim hope that i also got hacked and that i will not bother to recover my account and just roll without FB :) im too week to quit my self.
I tried logging in, I couldn't and was like "nice, I guess I want to have to look at garbage today". I really would like a social network just for friends without all the garbage bloat.
That's what Facebook used to be. I think they really lost their ways when they went from "useful tool" to "let's try to get users to spend as much time as possible".
I dream of a "facebook-like" app where you can only add someone as friend via a bluetooth protocol, forcing you to only add people that you've met in real life. Then text only, or with very limited image options.
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Naively, divide ad revenue by time to get a dollars-per-time. But thats naive because ad serving isn’t totally sold out so they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window. If the outage is short, then the impact is small. But some markets are totally sold out and there’s no making up for lost impressions.
> they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window Not only that but the bigger spenders will have more budget so the bidding after a large outage should return higher bids on average leading to increased profit per ad slot.
Possibly, but increasing ad density is usually negative for performance. So it’ll probably be end of bad for Meta as a whole, as people spend more but don’t get more value out.
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X (Twitter) wasn't affected: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1765048551023734801 Downdetector is user reports, not automated monitoring. It's... semi-trustworthy.
In general, linking to an Elon Musk tweet is hardly proof that a Twitter service degradation didn't happen. Even more so when the tweet in question isn't even a direct claim about Twitter, but just a meme making fun of a competitor.
The fact that twitter was usuable the whole time does.
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I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy. What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
Social Media is very successful in Get Out the Vote campaigns for younger people - who typically vote for one party disproportionately.
I thought Facebook was being used by old people nowadays
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In general, linking to an Elon Musk tweet is hardly proof that a Twitter service degradation didn't happen. Even more so when the tweet in question isn't even a direct claim about Twitter, but just a meme making fun of a competitor.
The fact that twitter was usuable the whole time does.
> The fact that twitter was usuable the whole time does.
That's an assertion, not a substantiation. A single tweet does not corroborate that, even if you ignore the fact that most outages of large global services (including some of the outages of these Facebook properties mentioned above) are actually partial degradations.
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Social Media is very successful in Get Out the Vote campaigns for younger people - who typically vote for one party disproportionately.
This would be a point for sure, except this is a primary and the only people who can vote in it are registered party members. Young people actually registered already care enough to know it's the primary today. This one is already decided though. Biden on the Democrat side, Trump on the Republican. If anything it might hurt the Trump side a bit, as people may not realize that the Supreme Court only yesterday ruled st…
I used to switch my party back and forth to vote for who I thought mattered most when I cared about voting.