Facebook: Oi, Lizard Squad – we can take down our own site, ta A technical cockup – rather than hostile hacker action – is apparently the reason Facebook, Instagram and other Web 2.0 sweethearts fell off the internet on Monday. Prankster hacking crew Lizard Squad was gloating over the downtime; Tinder also disappeared for a while during the outage of Facebook and its photo-sharing sister …
Amazing, isn't it? The world managed to get news for the last several thousand years without Facebook and co. but in a matter of a few years journalistic research seems to have become extinct.
If it didn't happen on Web2.0 first, it didn't happen.
A gas explosion in on a housing estate killed 20 peopley, you say? I can't find it on TwitFace, so it can't be true.
Just as the Morons in NYC overreacted (I'm from Buffalo you NYC wimps) and shut down the whole city as they declared a "State of Emergency" over 4-6" of snow, the internet has overreacted at the temporary loss of social media.
Really, who fucking cares if some twit can send pics of his private parts to some slut on Tinder or Instagram or Snapchat.
It seems that these narcissists can't live without their "fix" of instant gratification. On the informational front, there is NO factual information of any value that can be provided by social media, only opinion or hearsay.
This means that if you think you are missing the "News" because the Twatter feed is down, you are sadly mistaken and have no life. Please help save the world and use the suicide booth. The NEWS is not on social media, hipsters and bloggers can provide color commentary and opinion but not real news. The other issue is that there are almost no real journalists left, the good ones are anchors, the bad ones are bloggers and the really bad ones are at MSNBC.
Grow up and get a real relationship with someone that does not require a hardware/software intermediary for you to communicate with. You could try having an actual speaking conversation in "meatspace" you meathead! Sex is so much better when you do it with real people except you never learned how.
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