The current collapse of the largest social network - Facebook - is unprecedented.
There was something similar in 2008, and then the network lay dead not for six hours, as it is now, but for a whole day, but then the number of users was about 40 million, and now 2.8 billion, that is, 70 times more.
It should be added that in 2008 Facebook was alone, whereas now it is a whole consortium (ecosystem too), which also includes Instagram and WhatsApp.
They all also died.
Mournful Zuckerberg (you will be mournful here when you lost $ 7 billion in six hours - the entire combined fortune of P.O. Aven or O.Yu. you rely heavily on our services to stay in touch with those close to you. "
What was the famous exaggeration.
There are other means of communication, and they have the important advantage that they do not climb to the user without soap and do not terrorize him with mysterious community rules with bans, prohibitions, etc.
Therefore, the six hours during which Facebook was dead were perceived quite calmly, completely without shouting "Oh wey, Tsukerovich!":
"Who was sitting on the bench,
Who looked out into the street,
Tolya sang
Boris was silent
Nikolai shook his leg. "
If there was anything, it was just a chilled curiosity: "What happened to such a stately product?"
The versions, of course, were different.
Although we note that, to everyone's surprise, Russian hackers were not mentioned, as well as Petrov and Boshirov.
The most probable reason was called handshake improvement.
The desire to creatively improve their products is generally characteristic of IT workers, but usually only users suffer from improvement, and owners do not.
Especially for the amount of $ 7 billion. But this is in the event that the performers' hands-on skills do not exceed the known limits.
Whereas in the case of infinity, anything happens, and the Facebook story is far from the worst.
Recall that on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, there was also hand improvement, but the consequences were much more sad.
As for the future, the work of the system has been restored, what will happen the next time and when it will be, we are not given to know, and by the way, it is not interesting.
Zuckerberg has long passed the apogee of fame and recognition, what to expect from him is more or less clear to everyone.
Will be covered in the future with a copper basin - to know, such is the fate.
And now, when Facebook was lying breathless, there was no sorrow.
Why would you expect it if it gets covered again?
After all, there has long been talk of an alternative to Facebook, because Zuckerberg has tired everyone with his algorithms, as well as the rules of the community.
Some kind of massive action in this direction was hampered only by human laziness - certainly not love for the benefactor.
If the benefactor himself improved, perhaps, the escape from the edge of wild censorship (and also technically unreliable) will receive a lively impetus.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.