Humanity has long passed to a completely new stage of development – the world of people and the world of technology are so intertwined that they practically form a single whole. And yesterday we were once again convinced of this. Is it worth sounding the alarm?
The social networks Facebook and Instagram, as well as the WhatsApp messenger (all of which are owned by the Facebook group) experienced a failure for many hours. From 18.40 to 1.30 Moscow time, these Internet platforms were unavailable worldwide.
Moreover, the internal services of the company also “lay down” – employees could not even get to their workplaces, since their passes did not work.
The reasons for the failure have not yet been discovered, but the consequences, as they say, are obvious. So, the Facebook crash led to a serious drop in the stock markets, and the founder of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, lost about $ 7 billion and even dropped from fifth to sixth place in the list of the richest people in the world.
In total, the number of users of Facebook services exceeds three billion, which means that in addition to the global economy and Zuckerberg’s wallet, private individuals, most of us, also suffered from the failure. Many called what happened a real Apocalypse.
Julia, 23 years old
I was doing a test assignment for a journalistic job that I really wanted to get into. It turned out to be quite voluminous, it took me more than an hour to prepare the material.
And when I was ready to write clean texts, Instagram stopped working – I lost access to my sources. It turns out that I could not write anything.
I was very upset, I wanted to quit everything, but then I pulled myself together. I ended up staying up until XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. looking for content from other sources, and then I got up at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. to write everything down. All in all, this night was fun.
Natalia, 35 years old
My 70 year old mother has a friend in another country. They only communicate via WhatsApp, and due to their age, it is extremely difficult for them to master other instant messengers.
Yesterday this friend had an anniversary, and my mother was very worried that she could not congratulate her. She was very afraid that the person close to her would be offended.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to find other contacts of the girlfriend. I had to say goodbye the next day.
Anastasia, 30 years old
My son has an autism spectrum disorder, he does not talk to me on the phone, and the only messenger he has mastered is WhatsApp.
Yesterday he was returning home and had to write to me where and when to meet him. Due to a failure, he did not have such an opportunity.
The whole evening I was on pins and needles. Fortunately, he managed to get there without incident, but for both of us it was a huge stress …
Yes, it seems that yesterday the level of anxiety in the whole of humanity jumped sharply, and tension hung in the air for several hours. Someone’s work process has stopped, someone has lost contact with loved ones, and someone, albeit for a while, has lost the opportunity to express himself.
The virtual world has become an inseparable part of our reality. We depend on him, and this must be recognized. But to demonize this connection, of course, is not worth it. Progress is moving forward, and with the pace of our lives, socializing online is a great way out.
Life for show, a personal diary (blog) oriented to the public is not only the cause of envy, idealization of other people and the formation of low self-esteem. It is also a chance to learn something new, to be inspired, to expand horizons. To lose all this is hard and … scary.
But this anxiety makes us once again turn to the main existential problem – everything in the world is finite
The fear of loss that has haunted us since childhood, from the moment we were first left without a mother, can really poison our lives. When the familiar world suddenly changes, the ground leaves under our feet, and we fall into the state of an abandoned child. And that’s okay.
However, it is our choice whether to return control to our own hands or not. Now we are adults, which means we are really responsible for how we react. And the skill of adaptation is perhaps the key here.
It is extremely important to accept the variability of circumstances, stop being afraid of the unknown and remember that there are no hopeless situations. Through acceptance of the impermanence of our world, one can gain freedom, greater strength, and feel like the master of any situation. Even if the Internet disappears all over the planet at one moment.