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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Facebook is Dying

Several studies indicate that Facebook is declining in popularity among the teens and recent college grads.
Teens especially are switching to other forms of social media.
Twitter broadcasts to anyone willing to listen.
WhatsApp has overtaken Facebook as the number one way to send messages to  acquaintances.
Snapchat is used for close friends to communicate and send images which “self-destruct”          
Facebook is still a way to keep in touch with family and still popular with the older folks.



It seems there is nothing worse for Facebook than having a teen get a "follow me" request from their mom.



 Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors

1
Facebook 
900,000,000

2
Twitter
310,000,000
If not using
3
LinkedIn 
255,000,000
three or four
4
Pinterest
250,000,000
of these
5
 Google Plus+
120,000,000
MORE THAN FACEBOOK
6
Tumblr
110,000,000
You are out of tune!
7
Instagram
100,000,000

8
Flickr
 65,000,000

9
Vine
 42,000,000

10
 Meetup
 40,000,000

11
Tagged
 38,000,000

12
Ask.fm
 37,000,000

14
MeetMe
 15,500,000


Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Is the Internet Down?

Right in the middle of our morning broadcast, the internet went down.
Well, not all of it... but it seemed like it here. The video stream from the WTLS studio stopped.  A second later the audio on the tune-in app went silent.
I picked up the phone and called WLTS. A recorded phone company message informed me the number was not in service. I monitor several computers in real time on my second desktop. A glance at the list showed them turning red, one by one. Next I went to the www.downdetector.com site. The big red hole in Alabama told me it was beyond my control. The yellow areas scattered all over told me something serious was happening. A quick glance at my RSS news feeds told me nothing. To I continued checking various other  web monitoring sites. Traffic seemed unusually high, then I found a site that looks for denial of service attacks. These attacks are form thousands or maybe millions of PC's infected with virusus. There were 11 different attacks in progress. It is rare that I see one or two. Microsoft and Google were up, but a lot of sites were dowm. In an hour, things returned to normal, but that evening when people got off work, the attacks and problems started again as people brought their home devices on line. By then the anti virus stuff had it under control.