Walls Come Crashing Down
This might be news to some people, but nobody cares if your Facebook profile is offline. Especially not the cops. Unbelievably, there are some out-of-touch people who would classify a social media brownout as a life-and-death emergency; hence the five calls East Bay 911 dispatchers reportedly received Monday when Facebook and Instagram temporarily went out of service. Claycord.com reports that an anonymous dispatcher sent the news site a kind note, reminding readers/Facebook users when it is okay to call 911 and when it is not: "I just want to know if you can put a note out to Claycordians asking them to not call 911 when a website doesn't work? We have nothing to do with Facebook and when Facebook isn't working, it's not an emergency. Our lines are dedicated to handle life and death calls, and even though Facebook is important to a lot of people, it's not a matter of life and death when it stops working. One caller even called back to tell me I was being rude because I told her it wasn't a life-threatening emergency. Thank you Claycord for all you do." From what we understand, Facebook's outage was reportedly caused by an internal glitch. The site is back up — and nobody was reported injured or killed because of the social media snafu.
By the Numbers
In grand American tradition, this Sunday's Super Bowl XLIX will showcase only the best stereotypes our country has to offer — like that 14 billion hamburgers will be consumed in celebration of men giving each other concussions. WalletHub released a study on the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks showdown, with some statistics:
-7.5 million households will buy new television sets
-1.25 billion chicken wings will be eaten
-35.7 million tweets will roll out during the game
-Vegas casinos are expected to profit $18.9 million
-$500 million will pump through Arizona's economy
Given that the average ticket costs $4,833 and the $359 million from advertising, there's also 350,000 signatures to revoke the National Football League's tax-exempt status, according to the study.
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