There
is an old saying 'you never miss something until it is gone'. That
saying was put to the test this morning at 9:01 am (PST) when the
social networking site went down. The site was up 35 minutes later
but not before the Los Angeles County 911 systems were flooded with
caller reporting the outage.
"#Facebook
is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don't call us about it being
down, we don't know when FB will be back up!" Sheriff's Sgt.
Burton Brink of the Crescenta Valley station wrote on Twitter. In a
later tweet, he said an unknown number of people called 911 about the
outage.
Millions
of us depend of Facebook to keep connected to our friends all over
the world, get news and play games. One of the first things they do
in the mornings is pick up their laptops or mobile devices and get
connect to their social network. They might check the site multiply
times a day to make sure they did miss out on anything. So naturally
when they logged on to Facebook and saw the words 'Sorry, something
went wrong” they were concerned about what was wrong with their
favorite social site.
“We
get phone calls all the time, whether it be Facebook going down,
people getting wrong orders at fast food restaurants, or their cable
TV went out,” Sgt. Brink told Fortune.
“But
with Facebook in particular, we get calls probably because it’s
such a widely-used thing.” Of his now-viral tweet, Sgt. Brink
explains it was largely done to prevent more people from calling
about the problem.
Whether
we are willing to admit it or not Facebook is an important part of
our everyday lives. We do need to remember though that when the site
is down it is not an emergency. Calling 911 with non-emergency calls
are a crime and it makes it so that people with life-threatening
situations can not get the help they need.
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