[Outages-discussion] Fwd: [outages] Facebook down? -> Redir to @discussion

[Jason L. Sparks]

Respectfully, I'm forwarding this to discussion, where it belongs.  Thanks.

Best Regards,
Jason L. Sparks

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From: John Von Essen <john at quonix.net>
Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [outages] Facebook down?
To: outages at outages.org


We're talking about average Joe Q Public.

This list is for NOC people, ISP operators - not the average Joe. Thats my
point. Why are we wasting cycles on posting facebook outages.  "WE" know
that facebook is meaningless, and we know how to determine if its down on
its own accord and not related to an internet outage with our carrier.

My point to Virendra is this list is becoming tainted with meaningless
posts. If people post garbage all the time, it will no longer be useful to
anyone.

So can we stop with these stupid facebook posts. Use your common sense when
you post an outage to this list.


-John


On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:

 John Von Essen wrote:
>
>> I mentioned this to Virendra in that survey that was sent out, but why
>> do we feel its important to track facebook being up or down?
>>
>
> Sad as it may be, millions of people think Facebook is "the internet." They
> use it as their home page and rarely leave.  FB is now one of the top five
> search engines, because people search there, since it is "the internet" for
> them.  They use it as their e-mail, their calendar of events, and their
> contact list.
>
> When FB dies, they call their ISP and report that the internet is down.
>
> --
> Carlos Alvarez
> TelEvolve
> 602-889-3003
>
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