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If Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are not working at the same time

Three women on a bench looking at a phone

Around five, the news came. That Face wasn't working, that's what we affectionately call the social giant here. I always think that I will be the exception in such a case and that it will surely work perfectly for me. Newsflash: it didn't work for me either. And there we got the confirmation: an outage. Not only on Facebook (we can just about handle that), but also on Instagram AND WhatsApp (panic, panic, panic). By the way, it wasn't limited to the Netherlands, the outage was worldwide. Oh, I can just imagine that it wasn't a pleasant chat in Silicon Valley last night. Around twelve o'clock we got the signal ‘all clear‘. But seven hours without social, that leads to situations.

  1. Haha, this image of a goat dressed as a forest monkey is too funny, just sending a screenshot in the group chat. Nonde, it's not working. Cancel, cancel, send again. Nothing, nada, nakkes.
  2. Would it maybe work if I open the image in the app and then send it? You never know. Oh yeheeeesss, it does work. The evening of my colleagues has become a lot more fun because of that dressed-up goat.
  3. Likes post on Facebook. Like disappears. Likes message again. Like disappears again. Ah yes, of course we have an outage. Likes it one more time, because who knows. Just keep scrolling.
  4. Let's see if there's anything going on on Insta Stories. No one is eating sushi, no one is out on Wednesday, no one is at an event, no one is drinking cocktails on vacation. There are advantages to that censorship.
  5. Checks again automatically ten minutes later on Insta for updates. Oh scheisse, forgotten.
  6. Just imagine if Netflix also wasn't working right now?
  7. By the way, I think we're going to have a lot of babies in nine months.
  8. Did anyone read a book before going to bed or were the TV ratings much, much, much higher than normal?
  9. Oh, I would really like to know how many billion Mark Zuckerberg is missing out on such an evening.

At five to seven, my alarm went off this morning, normally I let my phone snooze for another quarter of an hour on airplane mode, but I just couldn't help it. It worked again, as it should work. But secretly, such a Facebook-Insta-Whatsapp-free evening was actually quite relaxed. And remember: that baby boom just before Christmas is due to this outage.