(CNN) A businessman from Atlanta has changed the password of his account after the phone he was using was hacked.
An Long Island woman who sells antique items on Instagram was unable to make money due to having to postpone a sale. Also, a graduate student from Texas who was disengaged from the social media distractions and a plethora of assignments, was quickly through four.
For about six hours on Monday, the ripples of the massive downtime of Facebook was felt throughout the US and all over the world.
From Mumbai From Mumbai Mexico City, billions of people were suddenly thrown out of the picture as Facebook disappeared from the internet and its various social media platforms. Instagram as well as WhatsApp, shut down the loading of new content. ( Another, briefer Facebook glitch occurred on the day before on Friday.)
The effects were felt everywhere. Facebook alone has close to 3 billion users, more than three-quarters of the world's population. According to one analyst from the internet stated to CNN that, for a large portion of users, "Facebook is the internet."
Birthday reminders and photo notifications were stopped. Online businesses sputtered. Communication slowed down. A lot of people had to adjust.
In the beginning the panic and confusion can be seen.
The apps disappeared or stopped updating just before noon in the East Coast, it was not clear what was happening. The confused users reloaded their screens.
The outage occurred hours after the "60 Minutes" segmentin which Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen claimed the company is aware that its platforms are used to spread hatred as well as misinformation, violence and.
There was a lot of speculation on social media. Was it an attack on data? A massive hack? A part in the continuous Mercury Retrograde?
While certain people pondered out-of-this-world theory, others took a more grounded approach.
"I thoughtto myself, 'My phone was hacked.' I needed to change all of my passwords as well as update the iPhone program," said businessman Tete Macharia.
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