[outages] Facebook down?

[John Von Essen]

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
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>
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