People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on.
Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a small set of services. "Cloud" has centralized things a lot.
Whenever we had any sort of issue we could generally get a good idea of what was happening by looking at changes in traffic in those two web tiers.
If people couldn't play for most reasons, game action traffic would drop to near zero, but the static asset tier traffic would usually at least triple.
So yeah, there are a lot of F5 buttons being hit out there when pages don't load.
It was not fully down, there were issues with their blobstore.
Google+ APIs were shutdown 9 March 2019
Customers in 1999 really couldn't believe no one had replied to their emails within a day or two.
Wait, people are doing this already: https://twitter.com/SA_SES/status/1105969450698694656
Google sure, but what people in the real world cares about twitter?
Twitter could be down for days and only the technocracy would notice.
It also seems popular with journalists and media companies (e.g. TV shows asking viewers to "tweet us your questions")