Facebook going down meant more than just a social network being unavailable

Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by vxNsr on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:27AM (#28756103)

Facebook’s culture is “move fast and break things” the exact opposite of what you want from a utility used by billions every minute. Forgetting Facebook and insta for a second, WhatsApp really is the defacto phone and text service for many parts of the world: the taliban set up WhatsApp groups to manage things as they took over in Kabul.

Putting a little more maturity into their SOP isn’t the worst thing.

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:52AM (#28756241)

>move fast and break things

How often Facebook really breaks? I've had a much higher number of electricity blackouts and internet outages in the last decade than Facebook going down. Basically I don't even recall Facebook ever going down for that long, or breaking in any other way.

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Re:Facebook going down meant more than just a social network... by leokennis on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:56AM (#28757263)

Regardless; imagine your bank or the company that builds a bridge having "move fast and break things" engrained into their corporate culture?

If you want to be taken serious as a messenger app, you need to align your corporate culture and processes to reflect that.

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