NOT THE ONION: Facebook Goes Down, Users Call 911 and Storms Twitter

[steve2470]

http://www.hngn.com/articles/37837/20140802/facebook-goes-down-users-call-911-storms-twitter.htm

The world's largest social networking site with more than 1.3 billion users worldwide, Facebook, crashed for a brief time on Friday afternoon. As expected, people flooded Twitter under hashtag #FacebookDown. But the latest outage also led to some extreme reactions from some users in the US, who called 911 to report the so-called emergency.

The 911-calling incident was reported by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Sgt. Burton Brink, who took to Twitter to explain that the law enforcement has no role to play in bringing Facebook back. The LAPD Communications Twitter account also communicated a similar message when it began conducting a Q&A for 911-related queries.

#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!

Sgt. Brink ✔ @LASDBrink
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#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!
12:37 PM - 1 Aug 2014


LAPD Communications @911LAPD
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Pls. No questions about when #Facebook will be back up, we do not know... Thx! #LAPD
12:30 PM - 1 Aug 2014 Los Angeles, CA, United States


WTF....*shakes head*

[vt_native]

1. I'm not in the matrix

although others have posted a picture of me on facebook, once or twice.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Maybe the Sheriff's Dept could tweet a few pics of what they're having for dinner...

...just to tide things over.

[steve2470]

3. pics of cop cars at Facebook headquarters !

"COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP ! WE KNOW YOU SHUT DOWN FACEBOOK DELIBERATELY TO CAUSE WORLDWIDE TERROR !"

[yeoman6987]

45. lol.

That is a very funny post. You owe me a new computer.....lol. I have not laughed like that in a while.....I needed it. Thank you!

[oldandhappy]

4. Serious addiction withdrawal!

zowie. Let me introduce to this object -- it is called a book!

[pinboy3niner]

5. The funny thing is that I live in L.A. County...

...and I'm afraid I may know some of the Facebookie idiots who called 911.

[steve2470]

9. oh somehow I thought you were further north for some reason nt

[Hugin]

6. Yow!

What's on your mind?

or I could've posted, "Mama don't take my Kodachrome away."

In fact, I think I will as a palliative measure. THIS IS SURIUS!!!iii1

[Hugin]

14. CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FRIKKIN' NOW!!!iii1(spittle)!ii

Hi-larious, I tells ya.

[steve2470]

7. God spaketh thusly

Attention world: Please remain calm and do not attempt to interact with human beings.

https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/statuses/495245043087966208

[steve2470]

8. funny tweets here

http://www.eonline.com/news/565375/this-is-what-happens-when-facebook-crashes-for-users-around-the-world

[In_The_Wind]

10. Someone needs to get a life away from Facebook.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Unfriending you

RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!

[steve2470]

12. taking my selfie and posting it to pinboy's Twitter account RIGHT FUCKING NOW lol nt

[pinboy3niner]

13. Not even pinboy follows pinboy's twitter account, NYAH NYAH!

[steve2470]

15. posts selfie to your Instagram instead LOL nt

[pinboy3niner]

17. I haz Instagram account?

It's so hard to keep track of all my social media these days! I sure don't need the stress. I may just give it all up and go live in Farmville...

[steve2470]

16. oh btw give your opinion here please

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018646987

[pinboy3niner]

28. Done :) nt

[steve2470]

38. shukrani nyingi aina sir nt

[pinboy3niner]

47. My Swahili's a little rusty...

Did you really mean to say 'My eggplant has a carbuncle"? If so, I am sincerely sorry for your eggplant. I hope it gets well soon.

[steve2470]

48. haha ! :) nt

[In_The_Wind]

29. If you must ...

[Stellar]

18. I joined FB so that I could post

on HuffPo. I guess I'm supposed to go there to read the responses to my post. I haven't figured out how that works yet and frankly it doesn't bother me, big deal.

[djean111]

46. I stop visiting any site that asks me to log in with facebook or my google account.

Whoever wants that info, for whatever reason, needs to use a little more effort.

[Stellar]

49. Oh yeah, I forgot about google.

I do log in to listen to my Youtube. I have lied all the way around on both of those account. I don't understand why they would think I'd put the correct info out there in the first place. The only thing they know truthfully about me is that I live in Illinois. I figured they would get that much info from most people on-line anyway, isn't that correct?

[JustAnotherGen]

19. That's a shame

That Facebook going down could cause such a big brouhaha. I'm in the midst of an experiment so I missed it. My experiment? How long can I go without a staus update before people think I died and call me. One of my friends from work came up to my office (we sit at different ends of our work mother ship) on Thursday because she was concerned!

We are taking social networking to far. To the point where we don't connect at a real level and are calling 911 when a site goes down.

[Hugin]

20. I'd have a long wait.

The average human lifespan is not long enough for me to complete that experiment.

Let me know how it turns out for you, though.

[JustAnotherGen]

24. Interesting so far

I only joined Facebook because my college friends decided to shut down our private Yahoo group. We moved it to Facebook in 2008.

My logging on the past three weeks has been centered around that. IE Asking about ideas for the two sides of my spa tub for shelving systems - we are doing a a major remodel of a 100 year old home we bought last year. Juicing ideas. Discussions about Israel, Ukraine, immigrant children, etc etc

That's why we all joined - for the group platform. And we all are conducting the experiment - and getting the same results. Some of us went to high school and university together. I didnt "re connect" with this group on Facebook - we've all been together for 25 years. There's something to be said about having a glass of wine on Thursday night (our big going out night at college) with old friends who all live so far away from each other. Thursday's 9 - 10 you can find me there being silly with 51 other people! It's only that big because we have voted in a few of our partners and spouses.

This past Thursday my buddy Mike and his husband got into a real rip doozy of a fight over Israel and we all just egged it on. An Italian Catholic man from Long Island and a Jewish Russian man from Philly make for an interesting marriage and funny arguments!

[pinboy3niner]

21. THANKS OBAMA!1!!

Well, someone had to say it.

[Hugin]

23. Obviously.

Spaketh Fox News.

[Enrique]

22. 911 is NOT for when Facebook is down

it's for when the drive thru gets your order wrong.

[kentauros]

25. That too.

http://notalwaysright.com/tag/911


An Invitation Nonetheless
911, Call Center | Jacksonburg, OH, USA | Top

Me: “911, what is your emergency?”
Caller: “I’m a bad, bad boy.”
Me: “Yes, you are. I have a squad car en route to your location. Have a good day, sir.”


911 Grab Bag: Define “Emergency”
911, Call Center | West Virginia, USA |

(The following quotes are from various phone calls made to a West Virginia 911 line)

1. “What are the Daily Pick Four lottery numbers?”

2. “My TV is out.”

3. “How much snow/rain are we supposed to get?”

4. “Is it illegal to tape a cat to a bottle rocket?”

5. “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

6. “How high are gas prices going to get?”

7. “Why am I getting Error Message #781 on my computer screen?”

8. “I have never roasted a turkey before and my inlaws will be here in an hour.”

9. “I am reading this recipe. What is fennel?”

10. “I am doing my homework. What is the square root of 435?”

11. “Are crabs in season?”

12. “I wanna talk to a cop about my child support if you can drag one away from the donut shop.”

13. “I just wanted to make sure you were all awake.”

[pinboy3niner]

26. Cop Eats Pot Brownies, Calls 911 ("I think we're dying.")

An instant classic!

[kentauros]

30. 5-6 Vicodin a day??

Who is his wife, Dr. Gregory House?

[barbtries]

32. is it real?

too funny.

[Enrique]

44. that sounds like Maureen Dowd

[TBF]

40. ^ That's awesome. I hate it when they mess up

and you're already back on the highway ...

[pinboy3niner]

42. I usually skip 911 and go directly to the Swat Team Hotline

That's the only way to teach those drive-thru servers a lesson!

[Sunlei]

27. probably installed another monitoring program and needed reboot.

[barbtries]

31. for a minute i was afraid my employer had decided to block it.

my son's been in spain and fb messaging is how we communicated. but calling 911? that is hilarious.
but yeah i'm a fb fiend. my entire extended family is on there and we are really scattered across the country so i am thankful for the opportunity to keep in touch this way.

[doxydad]

33. Sad society!

When you have to go to facebook, twitter, all these other social media sites...just to express yourself...(I'm taking a shower BBL...OMG look at that flower!...etc....) you've lost the entire idea of HUMAN CONTACT.

I was at the doc's office and there were 14 people waiting to see one of the doctors there. I WAS THE ONLY GODDAMN PERSON IN THE ROOM, who was not on a device of some sort. That's nutz. And if you are pleasant to another person, they take it as an insut that you are interfering with them and the device at hand. it's not good.

[steve2470]

34. + 1 nt

[yuiyoshida]

35. omg.. people should know that 911 is for life and death

emergencies!! Idiots calling 911 about FB are just that, idiots, who could be preventing someone from getting the life care they immediately need. STUPID!!!!

[pinboy3niner]

39. What's sad is that to some, FB down IS life or death

[tanyev]

36. At some point in the future, people are going to assume that Idiocracy was a documentary.

[LiberalArkie]

41. I always thought it was. Wasn't Idiocracy written by a time traveler from the future?

[steve2470]

43. 911 calls about Facebook outage angers L.A. County sheriff's officials

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-911-calls-about-facebook-outage-angers-la-sheriffs-officials-20140801-htmlstory.html

Officials at one Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department station were not happy after getting calls from residents because Facebook went down Friday morning.

"#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being down, we don't know when FB will be back up!" Sheriff's Sgt. Burton Brink of the Crescenta Valley station wrote on Twitter. In a later tweet, he said an unknown number of people called 911 about the outage.

Facebook went down early Friday morning. The company responded to the outage, issuing a statement saying, "Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We'll update shortly."

Service was restored a short time later.