Emergency Plan – Facebook Is Down, What Do You Do?

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Picture the scene. You are on a three hour train journey. You have managed to wrangle a seat to yourself and you are idly chatting with one of your friends on your smartphone or tablet onFacebook, laughing at the posts from your mate Jim’s night out last night featuring Jim, a traffic cone and a lewd gesture, when suddenly, you receive a 404 message that Facebookhas gone down. What do you do?

Here are five things to keep you entertained in the event of a Facebook outage:

Read Reddit

A huge forum with millions of users from around the world, there’s something for everyone onReddit. More than just a news aggregation site, there’s everything here, from pictures of cats, to atheist debates, to horrific gore. It’s really easy to make an account and join in.

Microblogging on Twitter

Most people have got both Twitter and Facebook account. While it doesn’t have the immediacy and functionality of Facebook, you can engage with your favourite celebrity or comedian, join in with live tweeting your favourite TV show or just moan about the situation on the train.

Gambling

Online casinos are becoming popular with everyone. With every sort of gambling, from roulette to us slots available, you can while away the long train journey by having a flutter at your favourite casino activity.

Get fit in seven minutes with 7-min.com

Ok, so maybe not on the train, but there is a new theory which says that a super hard seven minute workout is just as effective as a slower longer workout. All you need is a chair and some room to manoeuvre and you can get rid of your expensive and time consuming gym membership and try the seven minute workout instead.

Games

The internet is full of games sites. There are emulators for Amiga, Nintendo and Sega, so that you can play all the games for yesteryear, sites such as Steam which offer the latest in gaming or casual games dotted all over the place, which you can find by simply googling free online games.

Learn a new language

The internet is full of information on anything you could possibly think of, including new languages. Sites such as Duolingo start out with the basics and take you right up to conversational levels of Spanish, French with more languages coming soon.

Watch videos

YouTube and Vimeo are full of videos on anything you could think of, from You’ve Been Framed-esque escapades to deep philosophical thought. If educational videos are more your cup of tea, the TED talks site has top thought leaders from all walks of life discussing the latest thinking in everything from feminism to neuroscience.