The Facebook platforms stopped the world in amazement.. How did people act?

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Facebook tweeted on Twitter apologizing to its customers, promising to fix the malfunction, after they were unable to access the Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms. .

The WhatsApp tag was issued and Facebook stopped the trend on “Twitter”, which some users dubbed “the father of the poor”, in reference to the platforms of the Facebook company.

And Twitter became the platform that contained the failure of Facebook with funny posts for users with multiple posts and videos.

There were also many videos and analyzes that talked about technical malfunctions and their types, and about when these platforms would return to their normal work after concern expressed by people on other platforms related to their work or lifestyle, which has become dependent on social media platforms.

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms stopped for a few hours (French)

Before and after social media

But hey, if we go back to the '90s, cell phones have limited penetration, and so is the Internet.

As for the means of communication, it was just an idea that specialists are trying to put into practice.

Life was going on normally, as were business and social relationships.

Undoubtedly, social media added new professions of scientific and economic benefit to an entire generation, and was the best means of marketing ideas, equipment, and purposes, and constituted easier ways to communicate with families and friends inside the country and with the expatriates among them.

On the other hand, it made people prisoners of their phones, and created addiction among many adults and children, as deep down many negatives and positives of the means of communication, perhaps needing volumes.

The important thing is that the Facebook platforms stop the world in amazement for hours, so how did people act?

Back to family life offline may become necessary (Pixaby)

Facebook stop night

Some considered the cessation of the blue giant and its other applications as an opportunity to reflect on the extent of the control of the means of communication and its entry into the details of life, while others were disappointed, while others felt nervous due to the dependence of their work on it, and there is a large part of people who found quick compensation by resorting to different means of communication such as Twitter and " TikTok, Signal, Telegram, and others.

Nada Abdullah says, "I did not have an account on Twitter. But the day before yesterday I created an account and watched the comments on the Facebook platforms being suspended, and it was very funny."

She points out that she is "a permanent customer of Facebook and its sisters."

But the night he stopped, Nada slept quietly, without insomnia, which made her ask herself many questions about her attachment to this platform and the applications that take her sleep.

She says that she will probably reduce her use only when necessary, as in her communication with her expatriate brother, and of course at work.

As for Jocelyn Al-Hajj, I was afraid that she had lost many contacts with friends who no longer had their phone numbers, because she communicates with them via Messenger and Instagram.

"I actually thought I should go back to pen and paper to write down the numbers of the people I want to communicate with. I felt like I lost them all at once. Social media can't be trusted, today is Facebook and tomorrow maybe Google," she says.

Even children lost their physical play and became interested in screens (Pixaby)

What really happened?

For his part, the director of electronic systems, Jeff Karim, told Al Jazeera Net that the suspension of Facebook services and its affiliated platforms was interrupted for 5 hours and 54 minutes.

For him, his work was greatly affected because he was in the midst of a marketing campaign, so the advertising stopped, which made the subscriptions he was collecting disrupted, so he lost about 600 subscriptions to his project.

Concerns arrived on Monday, according to Jeff, that Facebook had been canceled.

But the presence of other platforms such as Twitter and Telegram made the work a little easier, but with great limitations, because Facebook practically controls a lot of business.

He pointed out that a large number of people referred their use to Twitter to the extent that the "servers" (servers) of Twitter could no longer bear the heavy application downloads.

And whoever works on Messenger has found an alternative to Telegram.

Jeff thinks that if the crisis had lasted longer, perhaps both Twitter and Telegram would have collapsed in front of the influx of people.

But as soon as Facebook came back, he added, the graphs showed that users returned twice as much.

Jeff believes that despite the financial loss to Facebook;

It did not lose people's trust because they came back strong.

Communication between people has become through phones despite being in one place (Pixabe)

Technically, Jeff considers that something like this can happen, and he personally, although his work was affected, but he did not lose his confidence in Facebook.

Most importantly, the long downtime was due to the security of the application, which forced the programmers to travel to California to access the servers and fix them.

The world stops without means of communication

Jeff believes that the world now actually stops without social media, especially after the heavy reliance on it after the Corona pandemic, because it made people’s lives easier, “I sit on my sofa and do my work globally. Without social media, we lose control of what is already controlling us. ".

Naturalists recommend “digital detox” and connecting with real life (Pixabe)

Non-Digital Vacation

On the other hand, there is a so-called digital detox, especially among proponents of returning to nature and simple life.

They suggest taking a weekly or monthly opportunity from everything related to digital, and they do a "Digital Detox", and the reason is either to get rid of Internet addiction or to get rest for the body, eyes, muscles, thinking about the Internet and meditating away from screens.

One of the most important things they recommend staying away in the evening from the blue light emanating from screens, which affects sleep.

Leave the phone or charge it outside the bedroom every night.

Going to sleep at least two hours after looking at a screen.

They also assume that one day a week away from the Internet will lead to more contact with real people, nature and real things.

The issue of stopping Facebook and its platforms for these hours remains a big problem about the ability of people to manage their lives without the means of communication.

What would have happened if all the means of communication, which has become the main feature of the era, stopped?