In the dozens of countries where Facebook is the only de facto means to access the Internet, millions of people were suddenly cut off from communications and services. It was nothing short of an infrastructural collapse. Some US firms have reportedly estimated their sales were impacted by 30 per cent that day. We know it was a harrowing six hours in time zones where businesses rely on those platforms to transact business, families rely on them for communication and countless others rely on Facebook login to access other services.įacebook shares plummeted by 5 per cent on that same day. ![]() SINGAPORE: Most of us in Singapore were asleep when Facebook and its other platforms went offline through the night.įor casual users, it was a minor inconvenience, an annoyance, or even a good time to disconnect for a social media detox if taken positively.īut imagine the impact had this been during daytime here.
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