Facebook down.

[Chippy_Tea]

The plebs will be in meltdown when they awake from their slumber today to find their favourite waste of time is broken, how will they fill their time until its fixed, stress levels will be at an all time high as they cannot see what their "friends" had for breakfast or are wearing today.

 

[Covrich]

I just spent the last hour ringing 300 people to tell them I put put the wheelie bin out and describing in detail the cheese sandwich I was going to have for lunch.

 

[Oneflewover]

I suspect that there are people who view us - and our use of this brewing forum - in much the same way.... isn't there something about not judging others lest you be judged yourself?

 

[Derekmr]

I suspect that there are people who view us - and our use of this brewing forum - in much the same way.... isn't there something about not judging others lest you be judged yourself?

Have to agree, its exactly the same thing, just a different name.

 

[Cwrw666]

Except facebook is working normally.

 

[kelper]

Except facebook is working normally.

There was a global outage lasting 14 hours. https://downdetector.com.au/status/facebook

NOT just UK

 

[phildo79]

I might sign up to Facebook as I have a distant cousin that lives in Australia and I badly need to know what he had for breakfast this morning! I just pray to God Almighty that it was TOAST!!!

 

[kelper]

I might sign up to Facebook as I have a distant cousin that lives in Australia and I badly need to know what he had for breakfast this morning! I just pray to God Almighty that it was TOAST!!!

I don't think he'll be out of bed yet!

 

[phildo79]

He works the late shift.

 

[Cwrw666]

There was a global outage lasting 14 hours.

Well excuse me for not going on it every 5 minutes...

 

[THBF]

I saw a lot of comments about Facebook not working correctly yesterday. I had a terrible urge to contact the developer to get it fixed, but I didn't know his name.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I suspect that there are people who view us - and our use of this brewing forum - in much the same way.... isn't there something about not judging others lest you be judged yourself?

Have to agree, its exactly the same thing, just a different name.

I couldn't disagree more, we are a bunch of (on the whole) old farts making beer, wine and cider we are not friends we are a group of people sharing knowledge and discussing our hobby.

While I do get there are some plus points to having a Facebook account (keeping in touch with distant family and friends etc) when you judge your popularity by the amount of facebook friends you have you really do need to re-evaluate your life, if you have 300 friends they are not really your friends!

I used to work with a lad who used to have his phone on top of his toolbox every time he passed it he would click the screen to see if he had a notification he rarely went further until one day he did the above and immediately picked up the phone and proudly informed us a tree had just fallen down near his house, i had to bite my tongue.

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[Derekmr]

I couldn't disagree more, we are a bunch of (on the whole) old farts making beer, wine and cider we are not friends we are a group of people sharing knowledge and discussing our hobby.

While I do get there are some plus points to having a Facebook account (keeping in touch with distant family and friends etc) when you judge your popularity by the amount of facebook friends you have you really do need to re-evaluate your life, if you have 300 friends they are not really your friends!

I used to work with a lad who used to have his phone on top of his toolbox every time he passed it he would click the screen to see if he had a notification he rarely went further until one day he did the above and immediately picked up the phone and proudly informed us a tree had just fallen down near his house, i had to bite my tongue.

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I know what you are saying and I'm not disagreeing but we are still using a social platform to chat to people we dont really know, yes it is because we have something in common but it is still the same idea as any other social network,
I'm on a couple of other forums and also on Facebook,
It is up to the user how often they check and yes some people do check constantly and put absolute rubbish on there, of it wasnt Facebook it would be something else I'm sure

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I know what you are saying and I'm not disagreeing but we are still using a social platform to chat to people we dont really know, yes it is because we have something in common but it is still the same idea as any other social network

I guess its down to what social media means to you and my view is the majority of facebook users are a bunch of sad twats who have nothing better to do than constantly check their phones waiting for the latest update on what their hundreds of "friends" are up to and its usually not much, that is not how i view this forum.

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[simon12]

Chippy can we get a friends list on the forum it's such a nightmare keeping track on paper

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Chippy can we get a friends list on the forum it's such a nightmare keeping track on paper

Click on their username and then click follow then click on your username and see the list of people you follow. :p

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[Oneflewover]

I couldn't disagree more, we are a bunch of (on the whole) old farts making beer, wine and cider we are not friends we are a group of people sharing knowledge and discussing our hobby.

While I do get there are some plus points to having a Facebook account (keeping in touch with distant family and friends etc) when you judge your popularity by the amount of facebook friends you have you really do need to re-evaluate your life, if you have 300 friends they are not really your friends!

I used to work with a lad who used to have his phone on top of his toolbox every time he passed it he would click the screen to see if he had a notification he rarely went further until one day he did the above and immediately picked up the phone and proudly informed us a tree had just fallen down near his house, i had to bite my tongue.

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Disagree away my good man. My point is that there will be (I assure you) people who regard us as just as tragic as you regard the people you describe. Don't get me wrong I'm not into Facebook, and I agree with the thrust of some of your comments.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My point is that there will be (I assure you) people who regard us as just as tragic as you regard the people you describe.

You may be right, i would like to know what these people were searching for when they found us.

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[Portreath]

Hey.. it's not true that I stumbled upon this forum while doing a Google search for a Nun's Delight...

 

[Clint]

Ooooo! Can we say twats? My phone has just learned how to spell it!
Perhaps we should have a section called Shitfaced Book....you wouldn't get that Dave Heath one off it...