The total blackout

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 Blame it on the beginning of the spooky season, but social media users worldwide were in for quite a scare on Monday when Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp went completely dark due to internal technical outages. The outages left millions refreshing and constantly checking their apps and pages to see if services had been restored. I don't know how many times I switched off my phone and put it on flight mode. For a moment I paused and thought! “What will I do without these apps!”. They have become a part of our life which we can't live without. Our days are now revolving around these apps. 


Instagram and Whatsapp are the apps I normally use for communication. Scrolling through instagram and laughing at memes is my favourite thing to do. I usually connect with people in the comment session, we get introduced to different perspectives there. The social media blackout left me thinking, what next. My days had been set up around these apps so much that those  hours made me clean my apartment and fold my clothes! And also made me sleep early.  At the same time, I personally feel that such blackouts should happen more as we get a time for ourselves and we spend time with people around us, because we ourselves will not be doing it.  

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