Did you make it through the Facebook outage without calling the police?
by Elle Hunt from on (#4B2AH)
Instagram and WhatsApp were also hit. It wasn't the apocalypse, but for some people, it felt like it
When your grandchildren ask you how you made it through the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage of March 2019, what will you tell them? Did you Google "Facebook down" to ascertain whether Facebook was, indeed, down? Did you call the emergency services?
Amid the breakdown of digital society, the Australian breakfast television program Sunrise publicised apparently official advice not to contact police over the mass outage.
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