Facebook suffers 'worst outage' in 4 years; Qwest sees packet loss
This article particularly sparked my interest. I am a devout Facebookian. It is almost an addiction; an almost dangerous addiction for that matter. My first semester of college has been somewhat rocky and definitely a hard adjustment, and therefore Facebook has been almost a crutch; a way for me to keep in contact with friends and family at home, as well as allowing stress relief from various assignments.
Indeed, a great distraction and time waster, Facebook as inexplicably stolen valuable time that I could be spending on assignments and studying. Therefore, it was inevitable that I would have to cut off my Facebook usage, because limiting it was not working. I made a personal goal to not log on my Facebook for one week. Don’t get me wrong, it was hard, and I literally had major Facebook cravings, but I found such creative ways to use my time. I completed all my assignments early and I even had time to do crafts and read (imagine that).
Getting off this tangent, I will refer back to my article. This shows just what a big impact Facebook is having on our society. The fact that this social networking giant was down for a couple hours and a day at the most for some people was almost a cause for panic. My own Facebook went down this same day and I really did get quite frustrated myself. However, should something as simple as checking your picture comments and Facebook chat be a cause for widespread panic? This outage not only made headlines on many tech websites but it also made its way to headlines on the news.
Ten years ago most people didn’t even know what a social network was, nor did they belong to one. Can you imagine not having a social network in today’s world? Are we a Facebook dependent society? You be the judge.
Krazit, Tom. "Facebook suffers 'worst outage' in 4 years; Qwest sees packet loss | Relevant Results - CNET News." Technology News - CNET News. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2010. <http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20017463-265.html?tag=topTechContentWrap;mostPopular>.
This was really interesting and very well written. I too was upset when facebook was down the other day. You did a really good job focusing on the article and relating to your everyday life. It really made me think about how it's kind of funny how much time we spend on facebook and how we become "addicted" to things like reading picture comments or checking out new notifications. Therefore, I really liked your report and thought you did a good job writing it.
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