THE FACEBOOK CRASH: WHAT WENT WRONG? WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT.
Facebook recently had a terrible outage that lasted hours and in that time founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth dropped $6bn, according to Bloomberg.
Facebook, the parent company that owns and runs WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Oculus; through it; saw a tumultuous disruption of all its services.
WAS IT A HACK
I bet you saw that logo up top, 1 hacker way.
Your guess is as good as mine.
But....
The Answer is No.
It wasn't a hack.
So what really happened?
In an official statement by Facebook Inc. on Tuesday, they confirmed that the cause of the outage was a change in the configuration of its backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between the company’s data centres, which had a cascading effect, bringing all Facebook services to a halt.
Confused?
Don't be. It was simply an upgrade to its routers (network) that caused the Facebook crash. More like a self-inflicted misfortune.
This meant that everything else running on the Facebook network was also gone for that period.
According to a post Published Oct. 4, 2021 by The New York Times:
"Facebook’s internal communications platform, Workplace, was also taken out, leaving most employees unable to do their jobs."
Credit - Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times".
Facebook which enjoys a daily visit of billions of users blacked out, affecting do many lives. Its staffs were not spared as well as they got locked out of their offices as a result.
Twitter's co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey even took a swab at Facebook when a rumour of its domain being put up for sale went viral saying "how much" while tweeting the image.
So How does this affect WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
Well, because Facebook runs its other platforms through its main service "Facebook", the disruptions affected not just Facebook but also its internal system. As earlier stated, this caused staffs to be barred from their offices and could not access their internal communication platform, Workspace.
How am I affected?
NO more than you would be were Facebook up and running. And if you're asking about your privacy, well the narrative doesn't change.
Is this a good thing for Facebook?
Well NO! That's for sure. Facebook has been on watchlist for a long time now because of its unethical practices that focuses mostly on profit over moral justifications and privacy protection.
And then on Sunday before, the former Facebook civic integrity product manager Frances Haugen publicly disclosed a huge allegation about Facebook prioritising growth and profit over public safety.
Could this be avoided in future times?
Outages aren't uncommon to platforms where a great number of persons rely on. But this type isn't and to be fair May not be completely avoidable.
This brings to thought the huge effect this could have on online businesses and services that rely on it to gain access to other platforms and a reason for redress.
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