SNS Addiction?! The Necessity of Risk Hedging

I was surprised to see the news about the massive Facebook and Instagram outage even while on the Kanachu bus yesterday!! It seems it was a global outage~💦

Actually, it was Twitter where I first noticed the outage.

I found out about the glitch on Twitter, and I tweeted about it too.

"Instagram glitch" and "Facebook glitch" were trending on Twitter, and I saw many posts from people lamenting that they "couldn't post" or were "getting error messages."

I also took a screen capture and posted it on Twitter.

I'm relieved that I can post to Instagram again without any issues!

I post to Instagram every day, not just on note.

I start writing my note articles during the Clubhouse morning activity that starts at 5 AM every day... and after posting to note, I post to Instagram.

It was frustrating when I would get notifications for "likes" but couldn't post to Instagram because of the error~💦

When it was restored and I was able to post to Instagram successfully, I was truly happy!

Sharing the joy of restoration on Twitter💛

When Instagram was restored and became usable again, I shared my joy on Twitter.

I reaffirmed the benefits of Twitter, where you can interact in real-time!

I realized the necessity of risk hedging with other SNS!

Even though Facebook and Instagram were down, I was able to interact like this because I was also using Twitter. I keenly felt the necessity of risk hedging!

Maybe I'm addicted to SNS? (lol)

During the time when Instagram and Facebook were down due to this outage, I felt somewhat restless... like when I go out and forget my smartphone at home... I realized once again how much I usually depend on SNS💦

Is it a period where communication outages are likely to occur because Mercury is in retrograde?!

Mercury is currently in retrograde. It might be a period where communication outages are more likely to occur.

Knowing things like this makes it all make sense, doesn't it? (lol)

Things I'm glad I created for risk hedging

I will be speaking at an online seminar this weekend, Saturday, October 9th.

Up until now, I had been creating event pages on Facebook, but... if this major outage had happened on a Saturday, I wouldn't be able to see this event page on Facebook, would I? 💦

There's a bug where the event page I created on Facebook can't be viewed on a computer... (though it can be viewed on a smartphone...)

I'd be in trouble if people couldn't access it on the day of the event... so I'm really glad I also created an event page on Peatix!

You never know what might happen... so I realized once again that it's necessary to utilize various tools for risk hedging.