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That's what mine was doing. Don't think I'd used the PC version for a few days, so probably not linked to the outage.
Because the internet is a big and complicated thing it's sometimes quite hard to tell if you have connectivity.
A lot of software and devices just check if they can access sites like Google and Facebook because the idea that they are down seems very unlikely so "Can I connect to Facebook" can be used as a proxy question for "Can I access the internet"
This means that when devices can't connect to Facebook they might wrongly indicate the internet is not working.
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Should we be stockpiling cup a soup?
There's so many reasons to dislike Facebook - the vastness of it's reach, spreading dis-information, accelerating panic, the interruptions, the effect on attention span etc. But the thing I dislike most is that it is the world leader in the persuasive technology domain - everything about it is designed to 'consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible'. The colour of the like notifications, the AI generated drip feeding of content it thinks the viewer will find interesting, the creepy email messages it sends to remind you when you've not visited for a while. Yes - all these digital media platforms do it now - but Facebook is/was the poster boy for this sort of behavioural technology Silicon Valley thought up shite.
I've also noticed quite a few misandrist posts shared in recent days after Wayne Couzens was convicted, so while my account is still active I'm much less inclined to spend my time interacting with it.
That said, there are quite a number of very good pages I follow and I'd hate to lose that content - but this just proves that like most tools, it can be used for incredible benefit or it can be used to inflict incredible pain.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.