Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?
Actually the government did block all social media for over a month but that was fixable with vpn. (Follow hashtag #SudanUprising on twitter to learn more)
What I asked was what is the effect of sporadic interruptions of few hours. I mean, if Facebook had 30% availability, would I lose anything valuable from the experience? Is it that we are just used to it and and want it to be there always?
The value of 99.5 availability fore __users__ is not clear to me. Instant messaging is exception for this.
I hate Facebook, but to deny its value is pretty naive.
On the other hand, if someone were to sabotage the platform and prove/convincingly argue that they induced the failure, at minimum it would do significant damage to the tech sector and at maximum cause public panic.
This is a hypothetical, not speculation on the cause of this outage.