According to "What happened to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram?" (Wakefield, 2021), all users were unable to access Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. impacting the world. Cloudflare described it as if "someone had pulled the cables from their data centres all at once and disconnected them from the internet". In the same way, Facebook states that there was a disruption in the connection between network traffic and the data center. However, there are conspiracy theories, one possibility being that it was purposefully done by a Facebook insider. This issue has not only led to unpleasant experiences for all single users, but also has led to negative consequences for various businesses relying on Facebook or WhatsApp for communication. The problem started when the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the protocol that leads to a suitable path for accessing the website, could not lead users connected to any websites of Facebook, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and the back door system. Because Facebook stopped providing the data required for the system. Mike Proulx, an analyst at Forrester, declared this problem to be a "a cascading effect, like old-school Christmas lights where one goes out, they all go out". Although Facebook had been in a similar situation before and was able to quickly fix it, they did not handle the issue well this time, losing $6 billion from Zuckerberg's pocket and about $60 million in profit. This incident has also raised concerns about the effectiveness of Facebook in the communication network controlled by a small number of corporations.
Reference
Wakefield J., (2021, October 6). What happened to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram?. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58800670
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ReplyDeleteI’m not if these issues not affect worldwide as I still can assess to facebook everyday.
Have you experience this issue before? When?
Honestly, I categorize myself as a non-addicted Facebook person. Even I have scrolled through Facebook and other social media when I am free. As we all know, addicts never admit they have an addiction, right? :D
DeleteAnyways, when Facebook lost, I feel quite upset. But if Netflix or YouTube lost, I get really moody because I spend half or more of my free time on it.
I've experienced the time that I was not able to access Instagram before. However, I've never consider the loss of the profit of the business in this type of situations. Thank you for your interesting work!
ReplyDeleteMook, what do you think and feel when you can't access an app such as Instagram? When was the worst occasion that happened? Why, what made is so bad?
DeleteWhen I have a problem with Facebook or Google, I'm inclined, quite irrationally, to suspect that ...
Fortunately, I didn't feel upset when all services related to facebook went down as it happened very late at night.
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