Frustrated Facebook Users Call Menlo Park Police for Help

Congrats FB.

Best 'voluntary' customer department ever!

>> Emergency dispatchers are getting calls from Facebook users around the world about five to 10 times each week.

Every time, dispatchers still try to help.

“We try to deal with it and give them some direction. We give them instructions. We may log into Facebook and we may walk them through the process of reporting the issue.” said dispatcher Charleen Manning.

The big question is whether these 911 calls about Facebook could keep dispatchers from handling a real emergency call.

This reminds me of the time a tech news outlet published an article about Facebook introducing a service that allowed you to log in to third-party sites using your FB credentials.

For one reason or another, the article became the top search result on Google for "facebook login". The article was soon inundated with angry comments from users who had arrived from google and were complaining they could no longer log in to FB:

https://ontechnologyandmedia.com/2010/02/13/the-facebook-log...

I honestly think we'd be better off as a species without social media.