Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them

[summer27]

Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them. (msn.com)

 

In Mexico, politicians were cut off from their constituents. In Turkey and Kenya, shopkeepers couldn’t sell their wares. And in Colombia, a nonprofit organization that uses WhatsApp to connect victims of gender-based violence to lifesaving services found its work impaired.

“Because we have a field team, we were able to mitigate some of the more serious risks today’s outage presented,” said Alex Berryhill, the director of digital operations for the group, Cosas de Mujeres. “But that might not have been the case for hundreds of other hotlines around the world. Today was a big reminder: Technologies are tools, not solutions.”

[Anta Assamey]

3.5 Billion users... So Half the worlds population, so that it self says how much people are into it.. 

[Raven_Rayes]

now they are going to say Facebook is crucial for running of the world, so please don't break us. lol.

I hope facebook disappears forever

[yemdoing]

19 minutes ago, Anta Assamey said:

3.5 Billion users... So Half the worlds population, so that it self says how much people are into it.. 

3.5 bil including fake profiles ?

[Anta Assamey]

Just now, yemdoing said:

3.5 bil including fake profiles ?

3.5 Billion gurinchi matladutunte... kavali ante half billion teesesuko... still a big number kada..

[Epic]

22 minutes ago, Anta Assamey said:

3.5 Billion users... So Half the worlds population, so that it self says how much people are into it.. 

that includes half of India population!