The 10 phases of the Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram outage
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In case you’ve been living under a rock (or you know, just living a healthy, balanced life with reasonable screentime boundaries…) you’ll have noticed that Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp recently had a record 6-hour long, global outage. The effects of this so-called, mega-outage have reverberated loudly in the influencer-sphere, and sent all the Whatsapp aunties into a frenzy. In this social media age, for many people the outage presented a step-by-step descent into a digital wormhole that went a little something like this...
Phase one: Confusion
Phase two: Refresh, refresh, refresh
Phase three: Restart your phone
Phase four: Check Twitter for #internetshutdown
Phase five: Denial
Phase six: Acceptance
Phase seven: So...let me just quickly google what else there is to do online…
Phase eight: Checking if the outage is over every 15 minutes
Phase nine: Finally seeing that newsfeed update
Phase ten: Relief
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