During the last years, Facebook has not only been criticized, but has also sued by this inadequate behavior, ranging from erroneous privacy to monopolistic business practices to harmful work cultures. Repeated calls are repeated to Boicott Facebook and its Instagram and Whatsapp properties, and there has even been some massive exodus of users over the years. In spite of all that negative publicity, Facebook still has a firm company about the lives of people today, something that was confirmed by the interruption of the hours that affected not only users, but also companies around the world .
For almost six hours, Facebook, Instagram, and whatsapp were reduced for the account, regardless of the part of the world in which it was. While it is not as long as a 2019 incident that blocked Facebook users for more than a day, the extent to which this last cut was more powerful and, to a certain extent, strange. Facebook has now come out with an official explanation, and, fortunately, it is not as bad as some feared.
There was no security intrusion or hacking involved, and Facebook ensures the public that they did not commit data during this downtime. It was, in the end, a simple but extremely harmful configuration update that was blocked not only to Facebook users, but also to Facebook Facebook employees, both virtually and physically.
At the heart of the problem, the Protocol of the Border Gateway or the BGP that Facebook described as the backbone that coordinated the network traffic between its data centers was found. The defective configuration change not only affected how users accessed Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, even affected Facebook employees to the company’s buildings. This was not surprising, which could affect the way Facebook could work to address the problem.
While the company has begun recovering from the interruption, Facebook executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, issued public apologies for the interruption that caused. This affected not only people who try to connect with friends, but also to companies that use the platform to connect with customers and vice versa. He also shows that, despite all the reviews, Facebook still plays a critical role in today’s world, for good or for evil.