sabian Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Working fine in Saraburi, no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paybob Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Working now in Nonthaburi no probs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vogie Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Oh dear, how sad, never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leggo Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Far as I can tell FBI and Instagram are working at the moment 10.30 pm! Sent from my i-mobile IQ 2 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepcell Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Use VPN and everything will be okay. try proxy.sh cheap one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepcell Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 FB is our primary advertising tool for my wife's business, and we also use it to communicate with some suppliers because we cannot use Line when we are outside of Thailand. I'm sure our situation is not unique, so this kind of game playing with the Internet and media only exacerbates the negative economic impacts of the coup. use a paid VPN, and will have no problem at all. They block access from the inside thailand, then just change your ip address to something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericnoodeeka Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 FB is our primary advertising tool for my wife's business, and we also use it to communicate with some suppliers because we cannot use Line when we are outside of Thailand. I'm sure our situation is not unique, so this kind of game playing with the Internet and media only exacerbates the negative economic impacts of the coup. just a question?, i use line in thai, uk, belgium and germany, france. why cant u use it out of thailand??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradavarius37 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Hey TV - it's no longer " breaking news" of it a) happened 8 hours ago, b ) is no longer happening - get a grip and stop being inflammatory. My TV" breaking news" email received a few minutes ago was neither breaking, nor news... Sent from my iPhone using ThaiVisa app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stradavarius37 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 While facebook is a major distraction in the workplace, it is also a necessary tool for my job. I use it to recruit workers, particularly expats here in Bangkok. So, as you are expressing your joy as to its unavailability, just remember that some expats and some thais are probably losing the opportunity to obtain beneficial employment due to the outage. Any job obtained through Facebook is, by definition, not a real job. Sent from my iPhone using ThaiVisa app 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beautifulthailand99 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I'm self censoring now all the time for the sake of TVF which is probably no bad thing but am starting to understand what freedom of speech is and what it feels like in the negative. 'Cheap' things always seem to work out more expensive in the long run. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I had a flash thought when I read this story about this momentary test outage by the military. When you are in a short time hotel, when your time is almost finished, the management will blip the power off for a second, then turn it back on. Then it will go off for good in a few more minutes . The military I am sure is fully aware that Facebook played a major role in the overthrow of the Egyptian government. So they will be keeping a close eye on it..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beautifulthailand99 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Hey TV - it's no longer " breaking news" of it a) happened 8 hours ago, b ) is no longer happening - get a grip and stop being inflammatory. My TV" breaking news" email received a few minutes ago was neither breaking, nor news... Sent from my iPhone using ThaiVisa app To be fair to TVF the emails may have been held up - the internet must be coming under some strain in Thailand at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 (edited) It's working in Chonburi , but I never use FB , l just logged in to check . I wish they could block it completely . Maybe I'll even support the coup now if that happens. Edited May 28, 2014 by balo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonbridgebrit Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 It appears to be, looking at the posts on Thai Visa, that blocking Facebook for a whole week, or maybe permanently,is a good thing.Go on, block it permanently. (please note, the above has been written as a joke, but looking at the posts we can see, well yes, a fair number of people feel this way). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penwithcris Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Would be a step in the right direction for all these 'social media' sites to be shut down internationally 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easybullet3 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 <script type='text/javascript'>window.mod_pagespeed_start = Number(new Date());</script> Yes - FB down in Bangkok According to the BKK POST Facebook has indeed been blocked... On the BBC right now...all FB has been blocked.. How on earth is this news ????? !!!!! and my facebook has been working fine ALL DAY (in bangkok)... maybe its dependant on the service provider... (from experience,, I see that True move BLOCKS a lot more things than TOT). but really... facebook has been fine all day for me... and more importantly... WHY IS THIS NEWS ??? !!!!! they dont do a story on ebay or amazon or Skype going down !! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merijn Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 It's working in Phuket. (3BB) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post beautifulthailand99 Posted May 28, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2014 Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. or the Buddha “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotary Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Gosh FarceBook down, this is simply proof that sometimes prayers are answered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazes Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. or the Buddha “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Sorry, but as a practising Anglican in my home country, I find this a load of codswallop. The Christian quote: for God's sake: there have been wars since the time of ...name an Old Testament patriarch.. and the "end is not yet". Brilliant but bs. As for the Buddhist stuff: don't believe ANYone, until somehow you manage to debate with yourself and figure out what is reasonable, and then just go along with what some brain cell or other is telling you what is ok. BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post beautifulthailand99 Posted May 28, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2014 Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. or the Buddha “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Sorry, but as a practising Anglican in my home country, I find this a load of codswallop. The Christian quote: for God's sake: there have been wars since the time of ...name an Old Testament patriarch.. and the "end is not yet". Brilliant but bs. As for the Buddhist stuff: don't believe ANYone, until somehow you manage to debate with yourself and figure out what is reasonable, and then just go along with what some brain cell or other is telling you what is ok. BS I don't know what is BS here - my qoutes maybe inexpertly were to try and illustrate how rumours and the growth of rumours are part of human nature and in times of big changes are part of the landscape (Facebook went down globally and in a flash many of us came to a conclusion and were quick to pass that on) - maybe I should have provided context. I like Anglicans - many are almost atheistic Christians - conjuring tricks with bones as the late lamented Bishop of Durham remarked many years ago . Anyway I digresss 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post IBoldnewguy Posted May 28, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2014 Oh dear, the end of life as we know it. Expect reports of multiple suicide attempts from those whose life no longer has any meaning. Implying that their life had any meaning in the first place might be a highly irrrational asssumption. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabianfred Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 My FB is fine ... Fang, Chiangmai ... 3BB .. maybe its just the early hour I'm up and using it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxYakov Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I had a flash thought when I read this story about this momentary test outage by the military. When you are in a short time hotel, when your time is almost finished, the management will blip the power off for a second, then turn it back on. Then it will go off for good in a few more minutes . The military I am sure is fully aware that Facebook played a major role in the overthrow of the Egyptian government. So they will be keeping a close eye on it..... Hmmm. Makes me wonder how the Royal Thai Army, et al is using FB. How surgical could (will?) they be in censoring it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKKdreaming Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I would say that the Military was trying to show what they "can do" if pushed, but maybe they played this card too soon , because now the smart people will get a VPN , or use another service , The Military can always just pull the plug on all mobile traffic but that would be a disaster to the worldwide press, I am sure they will try this again or on twitter , Line etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolgeoff Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 what will they do,no more selfies pics or change profiles.talk between friends they will be lost in the bars.it will drive themselves to drink maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipperylobster Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 (edited) Don't get your panties too ruffled. How does one possibly sift through literally millions of meaningless posts and photos on Facebook and find the proverbial needle in the haystack? There are plenty of low level loony tune common folk who may say things that sound anti-government, but mostly what you get are postings of what they are eating for dinner and crazy cat pictures. The more savvy instigators know that their communications are being monitored. Perhaps farangs are at increased risk of being targeted. Protest leaders most likely choose to stay off the internet/cellphone...and set up more elaborate methods (encoded messages and/or hand delivered messages...etc). Low level cronies would then (foolishly) post meetings and times for assembling protests. You probably won't find terrorist cells or para military operations people using Facebook. Besides all that, analysts sort out information by key words and phrases. If you want to get their attention....then I imagine you could throw up some conversations that would get flagged. Add to this all the posting in foreign languages coming in and out. Edited May 28, 2014 by slipperylobster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxYakov Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Would be a step in the right direction for all these 'social media' sites to be shut down internationally And have the narcissists, the NSA, (and several other multi-national, "Big Brother" type agencies) go into deep depression? That'll work for me. Actually, I'm considering a hypothesis that the popularity of FB in Thailand is due to a high percentage of narcissists in the population, particularly with the millennial generation. Narcissism would explain a lot about my observations of the Thai culture. Naaaah, It couldn't be ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beautifulthailand99 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Don't get your panties too ruffled. How does one possibly sift through literally millions of meaningless posts and photos on Facebook and find the proverbial needle in the haystack? There are plenty of low level loony tune common folk who may say things that sound anti-government, but mostly what you get are postings of what they are eating for dinner and crazy cat pictures. The more savvy instigators know that their communications are being monitored. Perhaps farangs are at increased risk of being targeted. Protest leaders most likely choose to stay off the internet/cellphone...and set up more elaporate methods (encoded messages and/or hand delivered messages...etc). Low level cronies would then (foolishly) post meetings and times for assembling protests. You probably won't find terrorist cells or para military operations people using Facebook. Besides all that, analysts sort out information by key works and phrases. If you want to get their attention....then I imagine you could throw up some conversations that would get flagged. Add to this all the posting in foreign languages coming in and out. Andrew Macgregor Marshall's a goner and that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumtingwong Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Facebook down! Facebook down! Kurtz: [voiceover] The horror... the horror... Apocalypse Now (1979) - IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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