10/04/2021
How did the outage impact YOU?😝
As a social media manager, as soon as I noticed Facebook was down, I went over to Instagram, and IT WAS DOWN TOO! I guess it was a snow day for SMMs.😂
I spent the day just creating images and messing around. It was nice.😋
For others, it was a BIG deal…
❤️Amy
“The impact was far worse for multitudes of Facebook's nearly 3 billion users, showing just how much the world has come to rely on it and its properties — to run businesses, connect with online communities, log on to multiple other websites and even order food.
It also showed that despite the presence of Twitter, Telegram, Signal, TikTok, Snapchat and a bevy of other platforms, nothing can easily replace the social network that over the past 17 years has effectively evolved into critical infrastructure. The outage came the same day Facebook asked a federal judge that that a revised antitrust complaint against it by the Federal Trade Commission be dismissed because it faces vigorous competition from other services.”
For hours, Facebook's only public comment on Monday's outage was a tweet in which it acknowledged that some people were having trouble accessing the Facebook app.