And, this has given a not-insignificant hit to revenue. Especially since it is completely fixed even this morning.

Many people use FB as a no-cost way to keep in touch with loved ones in other countries and other parts of the US.

and other entities WOULDN'T use Facebook for their internet "presence" for retail - just based on all the bullshit that the company has done with personal info.

I expect they figure that they can get more traffic going that route but IMHO, they should start looking at some other solution.

Something is wrong with my computer! Help! I can't get Facebook to work!

I told her it wasn't her computer, and to remember when she grew up with an outhouse and a wood stove and a party-line telephone on the farm. We had a good laugh.

Horrors! lol

WEIRD!!!

But it seems to up at the moment.

If facebook is that important to "small businesses" and the economy that an outage can cause "devastating harm to small and some large businesses, maybe it's time to turn it over to the government and have it regulated. Privatization the last few decades hasn't worked real well.

We certainly don't want business people jumping out 30 story windows, cutting their wrists or enlisting the aid of the NRA's favorite product to do away with themselves because...or people who can't get their daily fix of cartoons, gossip or whatever and have apoplectic fits...

Let's face it, many "home and small businesses" aren't paying for the service, aren't paying taxes and probably don't even report income for tax purposes. Best of all worlds for someone to sell their junk online and not legally report anything unless they get caught. But bitch if someone want to take away their freedom to rip others off.

Love the excuses. My business depends on facebook. My communication with mom, dad, sis, bro, cousin, aunt, uncle, friend, total stranger and their pet, etc. etc. ad infinitum.

Of course, maybe there are already too many small businesses using the "free" service so that the extra load can't be taken care of by greedy facebook owners. I guess the solution would be to have the public pay for Zuck to add more servers, techs and especially investors but keep control until the next big outage. Then he could ask for a fee to use facebook in addition to even more ads.

Maybe if facebook were added to the amendments it would give those gun nuts serious competition.

Cue the criers in 3...2...1..

Now he knows everything about everybody, down to toilet habits and sexual preferences.