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earthquakes might be shaking things up for me and this week's guest but more people were affected by a total outage at Facebook that affected a few important social media platforms you needed only to look at Twitter to see the outrage even coming from our own Jaime Rivera regarding the loss of service and Facebook messenger Instagram and whatsapp the issue even prompted me and a few of our friends to move to different messaging applications this week I sit down with TK Bey and discuss how we rely on all of these services and what we ended up doing when they went dark and then after the break we talked about the recent confusion regarding the Huawei ban and speculate on what the next smartphone from samsung will bring to the table in order to keep our show going we do need the help of great advertisers and we want to make sure that those advertisers are ones that you want to hear about so we need to keep learning about you to make that possible help us do so by going to pod survey comm 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certain things happen there's two of us in this episode the reason why is because okay well in the first reason I hope Jaime doesn't get mad at me for saying this but we're all getting old man I well I just turned 30 and I can I can already people already warning me that like things are gonna start changing and I'm open to that that's cool you know I'm alright with that but then I can totally tell that like jet lag is taking longer to recover from so that's kind of what Jaime was kind of going through the other day Facebook which already in and of itself is kind of not they're not really under fire but I know people call them out for for basically owning so many different services on the internet when Facebook goes down so does everything else and that's exactly what happened this past week did you did you get affected by any of that um well mostly on ID you know and I haven't really been using facebook left as far as just you know using the actual platform but I noticed it and I was looking for my Instagram stories and my communication my messages were refreshing and or if it does refresh he was refreshing to an earlier time in the day where I already kind of refreshed so was like you know Instagram was drunk for some reason and it's just bringing up old stories and keep talking about old stuff and I'm like already check this what happened yeah this is happening more and more and that's alarming right ya know it's it's it's harder to believe but it's not the first time I mean YouTube was down at that long ago he and other services go down so it's just the way it's everything centralized and we really need to start building redundancies into these things you know if something does go down like a mainframe goes on jump on the other one as opposed to just basically left everything kind of go down and just not have especially like I said the services existed independently before Facebook whatever they did after they took over they made basically a pretty funnel through the same path that's the control that's their level of control I think that's what where the issue happened I think that with the outage of Facebook you made us all rethink how we actually communicate with people what are all the messengers are using just how ridiculous do you think it is that we have so many and aside from that here's my other question and next week on the podcast I am going like we or I am going to try to call out a few of these comments and actually respond to them you guys can be featured on the podcast next week so I want to make sure we start doing that more often anyway what happened to texting like we just don't text anymore awkward rather send you a message over on whatsapp just debility because I don't share more things with it longer video formats you know there's the big any encryption part of it well where text messaging doesn't really have there's not you know you don't to get that whole I feel secure on a text message but whatsapp encrypts on both sides its Facebook is trying to if report you know implement these things and those are things that people are worried about other people being able to listen to their communication all right so we do have some other stories coming up Assoc a couple of really high-profile ones coming from two of the companies that a lot of you guys are really into but we'll talk about that after the break support for the Pagano weekly also comes from Netgear and their Nighthawk Wi-Fi six router it gives you ultra fast speeds and wider coverage throughout your home it's the biggest revolution in Wi-Fi ever our own Brandon minimun has been using the router in his home he has a tech heavy family and in his house he has approximately 37 Wi-Fi devices connected all at one time including security cameras streaming boxes and a 4k television on top of all of the laptops phones and tablets he was recently using the newest router from Apple for example to keep all of those devices connected but noticed a 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stretched it throughout the you know election process which I hope no I really wasn't even seeing got that and now that you said it that's probably what's yeah yeah if you think about right it's a year right of the year a little over a year from now and as long as he plays that it'll always be in the news if he closes it right at the time where people are going to vote that could be seen as a big move to increase support yeah it sounds true but I guess that would be a way for us to dovetail into the general discussion of what we want to see from the note but I'm looking forward to seeing some new tricks I want to see some new features they bring into the s-pen other stuff having the ability of using it last year from the note 9 to take pictures with a life saver am i that enjoys that feature yeah just the ability of using it even if you're holding in your hand just using the aspect that initiated that image is a lifesaver so then eventually I think that for with the wide angle because the white the s10 was what introduced a wide angle so if the note 10 is gonna have it also man like that actually makes me excited will this unpacked feature another appearance by the fold which okay to be fair it is supposed to be out by now right it not only it was supposed to be out but again so there's also reports then that not only has it been fixed it was supposed to come out in July yeah so there were some reports kind of conflicting and before saying that you know we were supposed to see it in July ahead of unpacked but I understand why the rumors would basically link it to unpack being that it's only like a few days into August it would make sense for them to show it again they'll probably make it so that you can't peel off the screen the way that you know some people did when the first fold review units went out but that also doesn't mean that people are not gonna fold it the wrong way they're not gonna I mean they might sit on it while it's open battery is gonna break something like they're going to be breaks and I think that there's no way of getting around that so hopefully Samsung has found a way of at least mitigating that to a small degree and on that note we're gonna go ahead and call it on this one thank you so much for listening to this episode of the pocket now weekly and for watching the highlight reel over on the YouTube channel don't forget to answer the questions this week in the comment sections down below on the highlight reel the question being of course what are the different messaging services that you're actually using right now and how ridiculous do you think it actually is that we have so many of them available you can follow TK over at TK d SL eight six five five on Twitter and Instagram and then you know me I am at JV tech t I'm JV I love tech and I love to drink me some tea catch up on what the weekly is talking about at pocketnow.com slash podcast and make your voices heard by getting into the comment sections and so by emailing us podcast at pocketnow.com don't forget to give us some reviews and ratings on all of the different services that you might be streaming us and with that we're gonna go ahead and call it on this episode of the pocket not weekly and we look forward to seeing you in the next one