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What I learned from Social Media Blackout
What will happen when social media goes down for some time
Few hours before I wrote this article, some famous social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down. This may seem a small incident on the outside, but After I spoke to some friends of mine, I realized that this is indeed a big deal to most people.
What is it to modern society?
Social Media is probably one of If not the leading adhesives that hold the relationships in current society. Many of us depend on it to work, so we can keep up our friendships, our appearances, and some use it as an outlet to do business and many other marketing purposes. Given the uses we acquire from it; you could call it an important aspect of our life we spend in the present.
What caused this?
According to a techie friend of mine, Facebook server DNS had some issue routing the traffic, and It was blocking millions of users from accessing the site. Not only Facebook, everything that’s related to it such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and even oculus was suffering from this.
It’s funny and creepy at the same time how a single organization control the majority of social interactions in the population of the world. Some were…
