Midnight Musings: Isn’t it weird that it felt like the world was shutting down when Facebook shut down?
Midnight Musings is a collection of blogs I write at midnight when I can’t sleep, and thoughts are flooding my head. Questions I need to ask, answers I’d love to learn more about. Midnight Musings is a time to reflect on anything with no exact system to my writing.
Most of us don’t even use Facebook anymore, yet we all have one.
I only use it to see when people’s birthdays are.
So why did everyone freak out when it felt like Facebook was going to shut down?
Was it because we care about Facebook? Was it that Facebook is the king of social media, so what did it mean for other platforms? Could it have been because Facebook also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, 2 very heavily used platforms across the globe?
Ding ding ding.
Between Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, there are 3.2 billion daily active users. (Source)
That’s why. Because we tie our daily lives to these platforms. What if we didn’t though? What if that day that Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram shut down, they also never returned hours later? What if they were all still shut down today?
Could we survive?
