Social Media Outages Reveal Our Deep Human Need for Connection and Storytelling
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Social media outages disrupted people's ability to connect and share stories, which are core to human nature.
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People use social platforms to share life updates, spread information and culture, memorialize loved ones, and debate issues.
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Social media allows people to "do human" by relating to each other and making sense of the world through stories.
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Outages hampered advocacy efforts and accessing news during important events like elections.
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Some feared losing years of archived life stories and connections when platforms went down.