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| Man your battle stations Facebook was sunk! For an hour. |
Hello! I'm Morgana Kennedy. I am a college student at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. I will be delving into the world of new media in each of my blog posts throughout the next couple of months.
This is my first blog post, and I couldn't think of a better way to start a blog dedicated to social media news than the great Facebook/Instagram outage of 2015. Yesterday, January 27, 2015, Facebook and Instagram went down for an hour. Yes, I said that right, an entire hour of potential social media usage was disabled due to technical difficulties. In the life of a key stroker this was internity, or internet eternity as some may like to refer to it.
The San Jose Mercury News reacted by trying to make light of the situation posting an article full of twitter users' reaction to the interntity of down social media. Even the ever serious CNN seemed to find humor in this travesty on eye to screen viewing time.
Regardless of these news organization's reaction, the fact still remains that Facebook went down for over a million users in the United States, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The internet is not concerned with time or space, so every second wasted not posting a check-in, selfie, instagram advertisement, or hashtag is valuable. I hope that these millions of users that were stranded on the lonely streets of the social media highway recovered unscathed from this hiccup.
