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Here's Tom with the weather.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
New York Times technology reporter Sheera Frenkel reports that some Facebook employees are unable to enter buildings due to badge access also being down from the outage.
Facebook & Skype originally and now WhatsApp have been godsends to me. I've been away from the the UK since 2006. Being able to cheaply and easily stay in contact with all of my friends and relatives, share photos, videos and real time calls has made my life so much better.
Like a lot of things, it's really down to how you as a user interact, what your expectations are and how good your personal shit filter is.
This is a global outage for all FB-related services/infra (source: I'm currently on the recovery/investigation team).
Update 1440 UTC:
As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Well summarised...the right people are in the wrong places, and that's a management problem exposed by a technical issue.
I use Facebook for music connections and random shitposting/interest groups with communities of strangers, but I acknowledge that it is all these bad things too