I find this to be a very interesting subject to talk about. It is something that clearly affected us all, to some more than others. In just a few hours of not being able to be connected through these platforms, we understood how we need them in our lives. As Andrea Arocha says, we are so dependent that we had to go and use other platforms to fill that void that Facebook left us for a few hours. In my case, I also took the time to think about my dependency and what I could do about it. We should focus on battling this problem and start organizing our time spent on these platforms, combining it with other things that also matter in our lives.
Is this going to affect Facebook on a big scale? I personally don’t think it will, of course they lost money, but we will all continue using it very consistently and it is normal that sometimes their system fails and they suffer these kind of problems. I do not think it is a big deal and we should focus more on how it has affected us emotionally, the fact that we can’t “live” without it, even if it’s for a few hours.
