chaos in the internet

[Filipe Teixeira]

whatsapp, facebook and instagram are out

I don't know how it is there but here where I live we rely on whatsapp and a lot of companies use facebook for trades everyday so it turned into a mess.
I couldn't contact my colleague today because we use whatsapp. Then I sent him an SMS and we connected via zoom
How are things there and what you think about the situation?

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

chaos has ended.

 

[CubeRed]

Makes you realize how much we depend on internet and software in general.

 

[DuckubingCuber347]

Wait, Facebook was out?

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

yeah

 

[BenChristman1]

Wait, Facebook was out?

Yeah, from the little bit that I’ve read about it, somebody shut it down for a few hours because they thought people should stop using it. Instagram and WhatsApp were down as well.

 

[Matt11111]

Yeah, from the little bit that I’ve read about it, somebody shut it down for a few hours because they thought people should stop using it. Instagram and WhatsApp were down as well.

That's not what happened, it was a problem with their routers communicating with each other. Companies can't just shut down just because they think people need to get off of them because in a lot of cases it's the only way certain people are able to communicate with each other. I know plenty of people whose only contact info I have is Facebook or Instagram, so if I needed to message any of them during that time I'd be screwed, and Facebook is well aware of that. They wouldn't take their services down on purpose.

 

[BenChristman1]

That's not what happened, it was a problem with their routers communicating with each other. Companies can't just shut down just because they think people need to get off of them because in a lot of cases it's the only way certain people are able to communicate with each other. I know plenty of people whose only contact info I have is Facebook or Instagram, so if I needed to message any of them during that time I'd be screwed, and Facebook is well aware of that. They wouldn't take their services down on purpose.

I didn’t mean that it was Facebook shut themselves down on purpose, I thought it was somebody outside of the company (hacker etc.). Obviously, what I heard was wrong, though.