On Monday night, Facebook & Instagram went down for about an hour. People were so worried that they'd miss someone's homemade #paleo dinner photos that they called 911 — a lot.
On Monday night, Facebook & Instagram went down for about an hour. People were so worried that they'd miss someone's homemade #paleo dinner photos that they called 911. Like … a lot.
During the outage, one dispatcher in the Bay Area says she fielded five 911 calls calling the Facebook glitches emergencies and asking when the websites would be back online.Because everyone knows 911 dispatchers are the sacred keepers of Facebook and only release it unto the world when everyone's behaved sufficiently well for Daddy.
The dispatcher, who asked to remain anonymous, said “I just want to know if you can put a note out to Claycordians asking them to not call 911 when a website doesn’t work? We have nothing to do with Facebook and when Facebook isn’t working, it’s not an emergency. Our lines our dedicated to handle life and death calls, and even though Facebook is important to a lot of people, it’s not a matter of life and death when it stops working. One caller even called back to tell me I was being rude because I told her it wasn’t a life threatening emergency. Thank you Claycord for all you do."
We're just glad someone had the balls to make those calls. Meanwhile, we were too paralyzed with consternation that we'd miss Jenna's Mexican vacation photo gallery that we up and wee wee'd in our drawers. Thank god for the brave citizens among us.
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