How I Survived The Meta Facebook Instagram Threads Crash

This is how I, Screamin' Scott, survived the Facebook Crash of 2024.

It was a typical day in the office at WCSX on Tuesday, the 5th of March, 2024. The 10 o'clock clock in my office chimed out its tone. I was going through Facebook messages one by one when suddenly, Facebook disappeared from my office computer. The screen went white and popped back on, prompting me to re-enter my password. No problem, I popped in my password only to be told, "Password incorrect try again. Yet, after a few attempts, it had me change my login password. Again, Facebook rejected that new word and then locked me out!

Facebook and Instagram, both under the Meta umbrella of companies, experienced widespread technical problems lasting more than two hours Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands of users logging errors when accessing the social media services. So, I was not alone in my panic, thinking the world was ending abruptly. According to monitoring service Downdetector, error reports went off the charts at about 10:30 a.m. They had received more than 500,000 error reports. All of the problems reported by Facebook users related to trouble logging in the same situation I had.

Friends who use Instagram told me that their feed was not refreshing and that they could not post anything to the platform. The outage was also on Threads." Thank goodness Twitter X was not affected; where would I post photos of what I planned to have for lunch? Or any number of selfies I needed to take in the afternoon? Facebook did release a  Facebook Login Status update that went up on social media that read," "We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams seek to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."

Being a multi-billionaire has his share of joy over this news of the outage. I found his humor pretty spot on today, as Elon Musk posted on his X account, "If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working."

The funny thing is, while all this was happening, I talked to my neighbor in person! I know it's hard to believe, but I experienced a real live conversation. Human-to-human interaction. I called my friends on the old landline and said, "How are you doing today?" the voice on the other end even talked back to me and made me smile.

OMG! Facebook is back on! Ok, nice chatting with you all, but I have a lot to catch up on. Here's what I plan to eat later.

5 Classic Rock Favorites That Were In Television Commercials. You can't go a day without an earworm song that takes you back years.

Television commercials often turn to classic rock songs for their pitch to make people pay attention.

Recalling the title of the song can be a challenge and makes you think where have I heard this song? Right now pharmaceutical companies have cornered the market with classic rock favorites. One of the worst offenders is a song by the 70s band, "Pilot." who had the hit song, "Magic" now being used by the drug called Ozempic. The song plays in the background as they remind you along with diet and exercise improve blood sugar (glucose) in adults with type 2 diabetes.

Remember if you are old enough, The California Raisins ads in the 70s. In 1984 the California Dancing Raisin increased awareness for California raisins. The cost for the  30-second commercial was $300,000. “Heard It Through the Grapevine” which was originally by Marvin Gaye. Watch Here

A 2005 commercial introducing Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper as the Muppets' version of "Mah Na Mah Na" plays in her head. Watch Here

Dean Martin" used  "The Birds  & The Bees," song to promote the car company. Watch Here

Here is a list of favorites from over the years that I remember. There are so many to choose from I won't be surprised if this is the start of a series. Take this then as Vol 1. of the Best Classic Rock Favorites. Hope some are of your personal favorites.

If you have a personal favorite, feel free to contact me for a future episode of the best of the best classic rock songs in TV commercials. screamin@wcsx.com

KISS' hit song "I Was Made For Loving You" is featured in the new commercial for the U.K. coffee brand. In the 60-second spot, dozens of men and women, including genuine Costa baristas, are buried up to their necks in a sea of coffee beans while singing along to the KISS track. Makes me want coffee about now.

Deep Purple’s song “Smoke On The Water” is being used at the end of a commercial in the USA for the automobile “Dodge Avenger“. Dodge also in the past has used the song, "Highway Star." 

Ford used Rare Eath's classic, "I Just Wanna Celebrate." for an ad campaign in 1999. Rare Earth from Detroit, Michigan. The band was signed to Motown's subsidiary label Rare Earth. Although not the first white band signed to Motown, Rare Earth was the first successful act signed by Motown that consisted only of white members.

Our Own Mayor of Michigan Bob Seger let Chevrolet use of his song, "Like A Rock" to sell trucks. It was only suppose to be used for a short 3 to 6 months. The song was so popular for the company the campaign ran for 13 year.

Jim O'Brien from WCSX's Big Jims House talks to Bob Seger about cars on Big Jim's podcast. Check out this incredible interview here .   Big Jim and Bob spent a 1/2 hour talking cars before the Woodward cruise back in 2016. Great memories of Detroit, his first car and what he listens to in the car.