The Many Masks of Social Media. Whatsapp goes down.

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  • Blurock
    Diamond Member

    • May 2010
    • 4203

    #31
    Now the buggers are getting too lazy to type, so they will send you a voice message with lots of background noise so you can't hear a thing they are saying. Why send a voice message if you could have phoned me and get an immediate reply?

    What the hell is wrong with people?
    Excellence is not a skill; its an attitude...

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    • Justloadit
      Diamond Member

      • Nov 2010
      • 3518

      #32
      Originally posted by Blurock
      Now the buggers are getting too lazy to type, so they will send you a voice message with lots of background noise so you can't hear a thing they are saying. Why send a voice message if you could have phoned me and get an immediate reply?

      What the hell is wrong with people?
      Can't agree with you more.
      WTF - So if I am in a private place, I can't listen to the damn message! Cheeze whats wrong with them critters?

      If they are such cheapskates, then give you a WhatsApp voice call. After all the cost of data is negligible.
      Victor - Knowledge is a blessing or a curse, your current circumstances make you decide!
      Solar pumping, Solar Geyser & Solar Security lighting solutions - www.microsolve.co.za

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      • adrianh
        Diamond Member

        • Mar 2010
        • 6328

        #33
        Maybe on should return the call from the public restroom - hopefully they'll get the message :-)

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        • Blurock
          Diamond Member

          • May 2010
          • 4203

          #34
          Originally posted by adrianh
          Maybe on should return the call from the public restroom - hopefully they'll get the message :-)
          A Morse code fart?
          Excellence is not a skill; its an attitude...

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          • adrianh
            Diamond Member

            • Mar 2010
            • 6328

            #35
            Originally posted by adrianh
            All the communication systems have one serious drawback - there are too many of them. I am sitting here fretting because I know I got a message from a prospective client yesterday which I read - I thought that I would reply today. I can't for the life of me remember whether it was via....1 of 3 email addresses, 1 of 2 Facebook addresses (personal and work), Whastapp, Telegram or SMS or Telepathy

            Stupid stuff... there are so many options that the information gets lost between all the different systems...let alone folders and blockers and stuff....

            Eish....
            I found the mail....I have loads of filters set to move mail into various folders and this customer happened to mail me from his official Capitec email address so his private hobby question got shoved in my Capitec business folder.... eish...people shouldn't use their official email addresses for private business...it really confuses the issue.

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            • mightytrader
              Junior Member
              • Jul 2021
              • 16

              #36
              Can't imagine how life would be without social media.

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              • adrianh
                Diamond Member

                • Mar 2010
                • 6328

                #37
                So now the whole family is switching to Telegram after Facebook took down 90% of international Social Media for 6 hours yesterday - I hope Facebook gets broken up (considering that it should never have been allowed to own all the platforms in the 1st place)

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                • ians
                  Diamond Member

                  • Apr 2010
                  • 3943

                  #38
                  When I realised whatsapp wasnt working ... the first person I thought of was Adrianh ... rubbing your hands together with a grin on your face

                  So where to from here ... telegram ?
                  Comments are based on opinion...not always facts....that's why people use an alias.

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                  • Justloadit
                    Diamond Member

                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3518

                    #39
                    According to the news, Facebook blamed a configuration issue directing the requests to all three platforms being Down.

                    Really! is this the best they could come up with?

                    So the question really is - Where they hacked?
                    Victor - Knowledge is a blessing or a curse, your current circumstances make you decide!
                    Solar pumping, Solar Geyser & Solar Security lighting solutions - www.microsolve.co.za

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                    • adrianh
                      Diamond Member

                      • Mar 2010
                      • 6328

                      #40
                      Originally posted by Justloadit
                      According to the news, Facebook blamed a configuration issue directing the requests to all three platforms being Down.

                      Really! is this the best they could come up with?

                      So the question really is - Where they hacked?
                      It looks like they messed up their own DNS configuration on their backbone.

                      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...massive-outage

                      They will probably blame the Russians or the Chinese or the man in the moon...

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                      • adrianh
                        Diamond Member

                        • Mar 2010
                        • 6328

                        #41
                        Originally posted by ians
                        When I realised whatsapp wasnt working ... the first person I thought of was Adrianh ... rubbing your hands together with a grin on your face

                        So where to from here ... telegram ?
                        Yes we installed Telegram on all the devices - we will switch over to Telegram permanently - Enough with Facebook and their nonsense.

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                        • galileo
                          Junior Member
                          • Jul 2021
                          • 12

                          #42
                          It was a wonderful time, isn't it? Seeing all social media being down. Kidding. It was bit horrifying not knowing what is happening for a while.

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