What did you do when Facebook, Instagram and Messenger went offline Wednesday?
Did you feel that? Are your nerves still a little frayed? Can you get that photo of your recent trip to Maui posted?
What? Did you think we were talking about an earthquake rattling the region? Oh, how silly of you!
No, we meant the outage that hit Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger on Wednesday morning. Reports circulated that the social network’s popular sites were out around the world, and millions of people didn’t know what to do with the comments they were about to post about, say, the latest weirdness from Florida, their best friend’s adorable baby/puppy/cat/muscle car, or the college entry exam scandal.
There was no immediate word if the Facebook issues resulted in people resorting to outrageous communication methods like actually speaking face-to-face with one another. But Twitter was up — and thankfully, people could discuss the horrible turn their lives had taken via the hashtag #facebookdown.
A request to Facebook for comment on its outage — and how the world might make it through the greatest catastrophe since “The Macarena” became a hit song — wasn’t immediately returned. Thus, there was no way of confirming if Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was furiously refreshing his own page from his compound on Kauai.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/13/facebook-has-an-outage-will-the-world-survive/
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