Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are down

Facebook (and associated apps) are currently experiencing a gloabal outage.  Find out more in The Verge’s article here.  Personally I think this is not a bad thing.  People will now need to find something else to do with their time instead of having their noses locked into their mobile devices. 

When I first started in the IT industry over 40 years ago I had high expectations that technology would in time make all of our lives so much better.  However with the advent of social media platforms such as Facebook, we have begun to see the results of the darker side of what technology can unleash on society.  CNN Business have recently published an article here discussing the kind of things I have major concerns about.

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