Most of you probably experienced yesterday what was one the largest cyber attacks ever. If not the most damaging it was certainly one of the most targeted, as it focused on social media websites.
Facebook was terribly slow all day, Twitter went completely down, and sites such as YouTube and Google’s Blogger were also affected.
And the rumor goes that it was all a plot to silence one blogger from writing posts on the Russian-Georgia conflict!
I really love a good conspiracy theory. It makes me smile.
I also love the way some bloggers described the “crisis” as the morning when civilization almost ground to a halt as Twitter was hit by hackers. It makes me chuckle.
And what I love most of it all is the way some people were posting on the few sites that were still up and running during the event on how they felt miserable, useless and how much they missed their Twitter friends. It makes me want to laugh hysterically.
But the fact is that Twitter was launched in July 2006 and Facebook was launched in March 2007. Which means that civilization started only three years ago and by definition (of those Twitter-lovers, not me) we must have been all useless and miserable before that!
Not sure if I was less civilized and more useless then. But certainly I cannot be really miserable anymore with all that smiling, chuckling and laughing that the social media meltdown has brought to my life since yesterday!
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