oh boo fucking hoo. companies paying tens of thousands of dollars to shove their ads in your face were unable to shove their ads in your face for a few hours. how tragic.
It also brought down Khan Academy's login system because they support Facebook logins and apparently never expected that to go down.
That's awesome! Facebook login is cancer and should die.
I couldn't login to Spotify and had to code for hours without my favorite playlist! Damn, the world is a cruel place these days
Facebook login has value for many people. It certainly makes it easier to create new accounts and then log into 3rd party websites.
If it went down, it may create much more value for many more people! =)
Also it’s not an economy it’s a market.
I think the thousands of people who saw the ads and then bought the product appreciate being shown the products' existence. Pretty much matchmaking in action.
Then again, it's those companies that pump money from the rest of the world's economies into FB & Google, allowing SV to keep the investment-acquisition machine running. So i d say you are trivializing it