General Article What happens psychologically when we’re cut off from social media?

Topic Selected: Life Online Book Volume: 409

In what is being called the ‘great social media blackout of 2021’, for more than five hours on October 4, the impossible happened: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down.

For so many of us heavily reliant on social media and messaging sites to entertain ourselves and communicate with friends and family, it was something close to a nightmare.

Facebook blamed a ‘faulty configuration change’ for the outage which caused a ‘cascading effect’ bringing platforms to a halt, and while it’s no...

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