Will Facebook suffer as a result of its outage yesterday?

Im not entirely sure they will suffer. Although Facebook did receive lots of criticisms and many Tweets stating “maybe Facebook should stay shut down”, people will still use the app/website. In regards to Frances Haugen, I think more whistleblowers will come out saying the same or similar. I agree that it should if it has not already opened Facebook up to further regulatory investigations. Although I still don’t think this will affect usage at all.

I don’t think they will suffer on a long term basis as Facebook is always under fire for one reason or another and always bounces back due to its large user base as Jamie has said. If you don’t have Facebook you will most likely have WhatsApp or Instagram. I think most people have forgotten about the recent criticism of Facebook already over the suspension of Instagram Kids, which happened only one week ago…

I don’t think this is a serious threat to Facebook in its current form. However, with its plans for expansion from anywhere like the metaverse to smart glasses to Facebook pay, the reputational damage and increasing lack of trust might present a significant roadblock to such ambitions, especially coupled with its history of sketchy data use. And now with the outage – imagine most of your online life depends on Facebook’s functionality, say, in its VR space, and that just switches off for an unspecified amount of time!

Several of my friends downloaded Telegram after the outage (whose user base increased by 25% in less than a year to over 500 million, not least due to WhatsApp-related concerns mentioned by Xenia). The platform undoubtedly has some blatant criminal activity and cyber security issues that may warrant attention from regulators, but seems to be a popular alternative.
Certainly an interesting landscape to watch.

I don’t think Facebook will face any significant consequences if this is just a network failure. People will probably forget about this very soon. The main reason why it made such a fuss is that all three platforms gone down at the same time so the only other similar platform people switch to was Twitter. I don’t use Facebook often particularly but the main way I use it is to find events happening near me and also organise events myself. There is a platform specifically for this but I don’t think it can really replace Facebook so I don’t see myself stopping using Facebook specifically any time soon. And the other two, they obviously don’t have real competition and still have a massive user base. The only way I see this company suffering for real if there was something fishy behind all this, but again, humans tend to forget and forgive without difficulty.