Thursday saw the longest facebook outage in four years according to the article linked below. It made me think...what has facebook done to me.
I have had a facebook account for the past 6 years from my first year at Mississippi State as an undergrad. I have slowly added friends, used the chat mechanism, sent messages and also relied on status updates to figure out what my friends were doing or were planning on doing.
When facebook was down, I couldn'd do any of this. I then realized that I could easily find these things out by other means of communication. Email, text, etc. It made me realized how much technology there is out there. But it also made me realize how facebook has relied on instant communication. I made four phone calls to people I hadn't talked to in a few weeks during that time just to see what they were up to cause I couldn't check in on them through facebook.
The increased phone usage may have been due to me traveling, or perhaps that my birthday was in four days, but considering the content of the discussions, I would believe otherwise. It made me realize that our world is so used to instant information and the ability to get information from a wide set of places at once rather than rely on one medium (phone) at a time and then call someone else.
Strange to think about, but when technology is taken away, you realized how much you rely on it.
http://www.cio.com/article/618313/Facebook_Apologizes_for_Worst_Outage_in_4_Years?source=rss_news
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