Facebook's Amazing Glitch

Once every few months the ritual repeats: you try to log into Facebook, Instagram and nothing happens. Sometimes WhatsApp also crashes. At first you think that maybe the problem is with you, maybe someone hacked into your account. You are refreshing but nothing happens. Freshen up again and the sweat is already starting to accumulate on the forehead. Then the pushovers from the websites start arriving: "Global glitch in meta, it's impossible to like and see stories". Threads users also shared their deep pain last night.

Indeed a transcontinental human tragedy. The company's spokesperson was quick to reassure: "We are aware of the problem and are taking care of it now." The depression usually passes after an hour and a half, two or three hours with the reassuring messages: "Everything is fine!! You can already like the post of the friend from the army." The company also apologizes for the inconvenience caused to us. Indeed harsh pictures.

Somehow, despite insane revenues of more than 40 billion dollars in the last quarter of 2023, along with a jump of about 160% in the stock price within a year, apparently there are still a few dollars missing to properly maintain the Meta servers. The mass hysteria that afflicts us every time such a malfunction occurs indicates how dependent we have become on social networks in our work, private life and in every imaginable aspect.

But along with the fear and the unpleasant feeling, there is also a sense of liberation and freedom when these incidents happen. Suddenly there is silence on WhatsApp, the boss can't write to you, mom doesn't send stupid videos and the neighbor from the 5th floor doesn't ask who blocked him in the parking lot. A kind of Yom Kippur feeling that allows you to finally lift your head from the phone and concentrate a little on something that is not immediate: reading a newspaper, a book and even talking to the children, sometimes (and only sometimes) they are also lovable conversationalists.