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Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 5:33 pm
by alphamike
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 32059.html

Couldn't get a connection on WhatsApp desktop, and found the above info, just to save anyone else faffing about with their devices.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 5:34 pm
by PoshinDevon
Cheers for this.

Experiencing same problem.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 5:49 pm
by alphamike
You're welcome Posh, especially if it saves you restarting everything....that's 5 minutes I'll never get back. :lol:
I've got Signal as a back up but there's hardly any of my contacts on it.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 5:52 pm
by Chriswright03
Thanks AM I was wondering why Faceache wasn't working. Nice to do without it and all the bile there is on there but could do with messenger and Whatsup though.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 6:04 pm
by alphamike
Not a lover of FB, but confess to going on a couple of groups here which are handy for info at times. I must miss all the bile.
Always handy to have something as a backup that is not connected to the same company, but not when your AM-no mates on Signal. :lol: (I do have some family on that, so that's fine.)

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 6:04 pm
by butterfly
Viber is working .

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Mon 04 Oct 2021 6:07 pm
by alphamike
Good to know Butterfly. I used to have that, but hardly anyone I knew used it, so deleted it.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Tue 05 Oct 2021 6:03 am
by Chriswright03
I was going to write a letter instead but then thought hang on we have nor reliable postal service and if it got to the UK they would have no fuel to deliver it.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Tue 05 Oct 2021 6:21 am
by PoshinDevon
All back and working now.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Tue 05 Oct 2021 7:01 am
by alphamike
Thanks Posh, noticed I had messages when I got up this morning.
Chriswright03 wrote:
Tue 05 Oct 2021 6:03 am
I was going to write a letter instead but then thought hang on we have nor reliable postal service and if it got to the UK they would have no fuel to deliver it.
:lol: Don't think that I have written a letter in at least 20 years, other than business correspondence. Even email is becoming a thing of the past for keeping in touch with friends and family.

I never thought it was a good thing when FB took over WhatsApp, it's not good for one company to have control over so much.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Tue 05 Oct 2021 7:56 am
by benjaminbutton
Trouble is, if anyone else were to take over WhatsApp, we would probably have to pay. I refuse to have Facebook, tried it for a couple of weeks, just as a viewer, hated it and went through hoops in order to get out. I still love email, its so useful if you really have to send a long missive.

Re: Major Outage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram

Posted: Tue 05 Oct 2021 10:06 am
by Deniz1
I had Viber before but it kept cutting out mid conversation I use Whatsapp to talk to family its first class.