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If only Facebook would stay down forever. WhatsApp and Insta can stay.

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43 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

WhatssApp is the main messing app for a lot of people.

But it's completely replaceable, there pretty much isn't anything that's exclusive to Whatsapp. It could die and never come back tonight, everybody could just install an equivalent like Signal and be back in business in 5 minutes.

 

The only reason people use Whatsapp is that other people use Whatsapp, but everybody could move away in a pinch.

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Just now, Kilrah said:

But it's completely replaceable, there pretty much isn't anything that's exclusive to Whatsapp. It could die and never come back tonight, everybody could just install an equivalent like Signal and be back in business in 5 minutes.

 

The only reason people use Whatsapp is that other people use Whatsapp, but everybody could move away in a pinch.

But theres the issue of having your previous messages and content

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Yeah sure would be a bit annoying, but it's not like you'll die if you lose your old convos...

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4 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

But theres the issue of having your previous messages and content

Which is all stored locally on the device and can be exported to a file without the app ever having to talk to facebook. I know because I just did it.

 

As long as you didn't uninstall the app, you'd be fine.

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3 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

As long as you didn't uninstall the app, you'd be fine.

Or have an iPhone, becasue it's a pain on iOS.

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At least 9GAG is at your Service for Meme Content... it is kinda quiet, no WhatsApps incoming at all... but a bit boring, hope they fix it soon.

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Lets hope its offline for long enough for the addicts to realise the outside world does infact exist.

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It is an interesting experiment to see how big the mobile phone/sms usage spike is going to be. I do not think that people are going to use other messengers. They are going to wait and pray.

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For some reason my home network stopped working the same time as this is happening, most likely random but [insert conspiracy theory]

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It matters that you don't just give up.”

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This is going to be a resume generating event for someone....

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Roku running on Facebook's servers?  Their site is down too.

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29 minutes ago, trag1c said:

This is going to be a resume generating event for someone....

A friend mentioned (And they tend to be plugged into the right circles) that it's a massive coordinated DDoS attack.  

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18 minutes ago, tkitch said:

A friend mentioned (And they tend to be plugged into the right circles) that it's a massive coordinated DDoS attack.  

Interesting. That's must be massive if it's enough to do this kind of damage.

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1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Lets hope its offline for long enough for the addicts to realise the outside world does infact exist.

only if they don't get to get coronavirus induced pneumonia .

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1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Or have an iPhone, becasue it's a pain on iOS.

? How so? Tap on contact name, „Export Chat“, and you get a zip that you can Email/Airdrop/whatever.

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Is it just me or does the Internet seem a lot faster today?

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All of the Facebook stuff is down here too. Good thing I only use WhatsApp for work and family stuff so I don't care lmao. Time to push people over to Signal !

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