For social platforms, the outage was short. But people’s stories vanished, and that’s no small thing
By DEEPTI HAJELA and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The widespread attention given to the blanking of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday tells a tale. It says that social media platforms, like the books or newspapers or insert-medium-here of other times in history, matter more than just entertaining pastimes. The technologies might be recent, but what we use them for? That taps into something age-old — that we’re wired to love stories. Telling them. Listening to them. Relating to each other and our communities through them. And showing them to the world.
