Title: Why do we encounter interruptions in access to the Internet and social media more and more often?
description: Facebook suffered from a major crash some time ago that lasted about six hours. It is worth adding that it was a global failure. What caused the failure? It turned out that the crash caused severe downtime for popular applications - Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - leaving users to wonder if there was something wrong with their internet connection. Why are people all over the world facing social media disruptions? One of the main and important reasons may be our reliance on relatively fewer networks and companies to deliver large chunks of web content. Facebook in this case is used to log into many services and smart devices.
As a reminder, in March 2019, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered from a major failure lasting over 14 hours. Other services, including Spotify and Tinder, which rely on Facebook login, also suffered from the crash. Last December, Google, YouTube, Gmail, and other Google services stopped working for more than an hour due to an "internal storage quota problem" that left many users wondering. In June of this year, major services including Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, Github, Shopify, Spotify, and many news sites crashed an hour after an unknown bug was triggered by a client on the Fastly cloud computing platform. What is actually causing downtime and problems? When a crash occurs, users' first thought points to a cyber or other attack. However, this is not always true. It happens that sometimes hardware or a simple human error is to blame. As you can see, there is no hardware or platform that will never let users down.
keywords: Internet, Facebook, failure, attack, hackers, network, bug
