Breakfasts everywhere went undocumented on social media Saturday morning because photo-sharing site Instagram is still down after a line of powerful storms caused mass power outages across the Midwest and Atlantic Seaboard on Friday night.
Fierce thunderstorms and high winds, some topping 80 miles per hour, whipped across Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Washington and Virginia, leaving debris, hot temperatures and no power to combat the record-breaking heat.
In addition to Instagram, Mashable and Forbes reported that on Friday night Netflix and Pinterest, powered by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, also were down because of weather affecting the region. The majority of those accounts, and the sites themselves, appear to be up and running again.
However, on Saturday morning, people were still taking to Twitter and Facebook, complaining or poking fun at the impact of Instagram, based in northern Virginia, going dark.
Some tweets encouraged people to enjoy the blackout by leaving technology behind for the weekend, that it's OK to eat breakfast and drink coffee without sharing a photo of it with the rest of the world via social media. Other tweets joked that many people would go undocumented on Facebook or Twitter as long as Instagram was down because of the site's various photo-enhancing filters.
A similar conversation ensued when Twitter experienced a widespread outage on June 21, its largest since October 2011.
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Instagram wants photos to be seen beyond 10-hour window
Do you fly into a panic when your favorite social media site goes temporarily dark? Or does it allow you to disconnect? Let us know in the comments below.
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Panic? Amazing what the world has been reduced to...
Guess people are the people that feel like they need to show every detail of they are the same narcissists that can't go without he internet. We're farked as a nation aren't we? Billions of people survive on a daily basis without half of the stuff we have, even electricity, and they survive. We go a couple of hours without electricity & internet and we begin to panic.
CNN acquired the Onion?
Well that was pretty genius! Thanks for noticing.
really? knock out power?
have they heard of desel power generator???
even my company have 2 that has size of a trailer each.
Yawn. First World Problem.
Instagram had no problems BEFORE the Facebook takeover. Take note!
Obama and his minions...
Trump 2012
Uh huh.
Obama and his minions are also having fun with their little weather machine, too.
Ironically, when social media sites go down, people actually become sociable.
Not ironic. People actually have to talk to one another. Showing a picture of you breakfast? lol
Why don't you all have an actual breakfast together?
BD70:
Still trying to figure that one out, or why anyone would even care, lol....
There is something seriously wrong when people feel like they have to share pictures of their breakfast.
I did take a picture of a breakfast once... it was a really incredible omelet at a fancy-shmancy restaurant. But I think the stuff I normally eat would be an insult to my camera...
This is news?????
If the government would stop bailing out companies and injecting them with taxpayer's money this kind of stuff wouldn't happen!
huh?
apparently I did not cut and paste properly – sorry for the overkill but I still stand by my message.
See you guys soon. We got a little tornado damage and are without power for the next 3 to 5 days. The wife and I are OK. See you soon.
@Jeff Frank...so sorry to hear about your situation. Best to you and the family.
Oh, Jeff, I'm sorry...must have been that wicked storm system that went through yesterday..
I am so glad you and your wife are all right!
Don't know you but wishing you and yours the best from PA.
@ Jeff Frank
Sorry to hear about your damage. Hope it wasn't to bad. Really glad to hear you and the wife are fine.
I must be getting old...I don't know what instagram is and I don't really care.
what is a pintrist?
God bless George Bush. Global warming doesn't exist. No need to worry.