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Sure, until they are sick and they suddenly realize the quality of the medical equipment is actually more important. Or there is a disaster and they realize get
by throwaway9870 4y ago
Sure, until they are sick and they suddenly realize the quality of the medical equipment is actually more important. Or there is a disaster and they realize getting electricity or having satellite comms is more important. God forbid you end up in a war and the quality and innovation in your weapons determines if you live or die. Don't even get me started on food.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are only important when life is good. They are icing on the cake. But once things go south, they can be quickly discarded.
- Kye 4y agoGuess how they'll coordinate with friends and family and stay up to date on news from the government and emergency services. Do you think Facebook's crisis response features are for show? I use the utility's outage map to find out when I'll have power again during storms, but I would bet most people turn to the Facebook page.
- kwhitefoot 4y ago> I use the utility's outage map to find out when I'll have power again during storms, but I would bet most people turn to the Facebook page. Do either of those pages get the power back sooner? How about regulating and resourcing the power systems so that storms don't frequently take them out. I've lived in the same house for over thirty years and I can count the number of outages on the fingers of one hand. Two of them were planned and all were of less than 24 hours duration. I'll grant you that I live in an area that doesn't have a lot of storms but even so the electricity company cuts a wide corridor either side of power lines to make sure that trees cannot fall on the lines.
- mxschumacher 4y agoMeta is running data centers and subsea cables. Communication isn't icing on the cake, especially in difficult times