On the evening of October 4 (the day before yesterday), the whole world celebrated the extra-curricular April Fool's Day. Earthlings in different countries together came up with jokes, drew funny pictures, remembered old memes. Social networks and instant messengers simultaneously filled with millions of people who were discussing one topic with enthusiasm and laughter. On this day, the empire of Mark Zuckerberg disappeared for six hours. Following the wave of users, Tinder, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter, Telegram, Netflix and Zoom wavered but resisted, the list is not final.
Of course, at least two were not up to jokes – a guy named Mark and the second person, who, according to the insiders, “pressed something and everything broke.” Investors were sad, sellers in social networks were indignant, and the notorious “hungry children from Africa” were still hungry, but without the illusory opportunity to update their selfies on Instagram. However, all other users did not think to be discouraged. The wave of memes was replaced by conspiracy theories. And now they find an anonym who warned about the fall of the Internet, everyone is waiting for the epic finale to the Pixies song “Where is my mind”.
A former employee of FB Haugen appears on the stage, who promised in the US Senate to tell the whole truth. Not without data on plums – the entire FB database at once. It sounds scary, but everyone seems to understand that you can buy any profile on the darknet for $ 50. In every country, as usual, they joked about their own. In Russia, October 4 was celebrated as “Durov Day” (by analogy with St. George's Day, when the peasants could leave the landowner). The founder of Telegram did not stand aside, they say, 50 million people came to him. They also joked about the unfortunate Zuckerberg, who left this world in unsuccessful attempts to pay the fines of Roskomnadzor on state services until the evening (October 4 was a deadline).
The insider about broken passes that prevent engineers from getting into data centers and manually rolling back the unfortunate update has become especially popular. Even Israeli IT Special Forces volunteered to storm FB's Palo Alto headquarters. Zuckerberg later stressed that he knows “how important it is to stay in touch with loved ones.” As if the failure of at least someone in this prevented. As if at least someone is interested in reasons, not memes. It turns out that the point is not how vulnerable social networks are, but how comfortable we have settled down in them. Let, in this case, October 4 be just some kind of holiday. For example, the Day of Failures and Memes, when there is definitely no deadline for jokes on social networks.
