


It took Instagram and WhatsApp along with it.

This isn’t about missing a few cute cat photos or the latest celebrity gossip: For many, the bulk of their interpersonal communication – essential contact lists, chats and groups – is maintained in channels controlled by Facebook Inc.ĥ October 2021 (Milos, Greece) – Facebook went down yesterday. Just look at how much of our data and personal connections run through Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. Some users screamed ‘Hallelujah!’ Others realized how many of their social connections rely on a big company’s servers.īut more than the The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series revealing the impact of the social network on society, democracy, children and more, yesterday’s outage made a point clearer than ever … o ne giant tech company controls the bulk of our online social lives. The three pillars of Facebook crumbled on Monday.
