I thought it was just me who was experiencing problems when my Netflix had two or three playing issues.
Ha ha ha. Not only does Netflix go down, but it goes down during covid-19, and they know the viewing has gone up. Please don't tell me Netflix don't have enough resources to handle the highly increased traffic as a result of the pandemic. That is hilarious.
Of course, I understand people are human, which actually is important because the systems are built by Humans, but you would hope that they have at least protocols in place should plan A stop functioning as it should. Planning, planning, planning, back up, back up, back up. The larger you are, the more customers you have, the more expectations and reputation you have, the better you should be performing. By extension, you better have a really good uptime and enough resources. Why? If shit hits the fan, you can get it back up and running as soon as possible.
Oh wait, a lot of governments are containing covid well aren't they? They plan and back up.
Google, as an example, has not only their own infrastructure, but their own experts. It does go down sometimes, but then it works fucking hard to be back online. They know if they fail, then the only way forward is to be back up and running as soon as possible. They are too big to not be noticed, if everything for customers becomes non-functional, it will be in the news.
Yahoo! Mail was in the news about its data breach, it's still big enough to attract that type of attention; a while ago Google was also in the news for going down and because of all its services, that includes the drive and docs etc., not just the e-mails. WhatsApp also suffered a technical problem when no messages were sending, but that's Facebook, which has a less than stellar reputation anyway, as they've been in the news about data. Their reputation for privacy and data collection is shady and it's your decision if you trust them.
I am of the stance that Zuckerberg doesn't really care about privacy and data. I don't know if he ever did, but it definitely isn't high on his priority list now. Neither is taking down content which is inappropriate: the live-streamed video of the suicide and the videos of the Christchurch Mosque attacks uploaded to it. I won't say more as I have a post in which I talk about Facebook.
Most likely my reaction was not one many other people had. I thought it was because other people linked to the profile might be watching too, then I thought it was my internet. I just got irritated, but I didn't throw a fit, undoubtedly like most people, who were probably angry and irritated. It's not the end of the World, in this day and age you find something else for a while, YouTube, a podcast, the music software you have on your computer, or if you have a smartphone, you can play Spotify, Shazam or games.
In lockdown, and in a space you may be sharing with others, sitting there all upset will do no one any favours. So just chill.
- A.M.
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