Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/11/facebook-and-instagram-evacuat.html
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So I guess this is the “new normal.”
SMH
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Did they evacuate the users first?
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Thankfully, Zuckerberg was able to determine there was no bomb by using his thermal scans and magnetic wave detectors Noonien Soong installed during his creation.
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Wow. That’s some pretty hard cheese. I hope no one gets hurt. Still, as long as we are on the topic:
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Hard to tell who it might have been. Right-wingers have been claiming “liberal bias” at FB, but that company has engendered a lot of badwill for itself across the political spectrum.
Getting employees out is the first priority at any company; “inventory” is secondary.
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I’m not even trying to guess the perps responsible.
I’m just saying this must be what all that fucking “winning” looks like; perpetual chaos and discord, people being ugly and inhumane to one another needlessly, while the planet itself starts ‘striking back’ from all the centuries of exploitation and abuse.
/s
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Yeah, my first thought was, “There’s hardly a shortage of suspects…”
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I do not think this is what was meant by “delete your facebook.”
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I was on facebook last night and I got absolutely no warning to leave! What if it had been blown up? My monitor might have exploded. Thankfully, I don’t have it on my phone.
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Really I think you could have got away without the /s. Your assessment of the situation is pretty much spot on.
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Come on Instagram ! You just misinterpreted a picture of one of your foodies !
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That is not a very civilized way to delete your Facebook.
Honest question: how common is it for actual bombers to call in and tell people there’s a bomb before setting it off?
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Well, the IRA used to do it loads.
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I’m sure I remember getting sent home from school during the Mainland Campaign because the kids in the secondary school next door phoned in threats.
But had they been practising their Ulster accents?
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It was a Catholic School in Birmingham; they could muster a wide range of Irish-descended accents among them. 
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