A few months ago, a blog post criticizing Facebook login was published, arguing that one of the reasons was the dependence on the stability of Facebook services. Today, all services linked to these social networks experienced an emergency, resulting in an outage.

Reasons

The official channel has not offered concrete answers regarding the causes of the service outage. However, various experts worldwide have offered the following hypothesis: The latest information and what all unofficial media outlets indicate points to a problem with the DNS (domain name server), which corresponds to the protocols designed to resolve domains and reference servers. In other words, when you search for Facebook.com in your web browser, the browser (Chrome, Mozilla, among others) must determine where this name points, that is, which IP address it\'s located to and which ports are open, establishing a connection with the destination server to display the content you\'re requesting (all in milliseconds).

Implications

Regarding the outage of these services, it\'s important to acknowledge the fragility of online services, whether they are social networks or websites of various types, including game servers. For years, the stability of web and multimedia services has been improving. With the growing market supported by networks, Internet and hosting providers have also improved the quality of their service, generally offering 99.9% uptime. However, this doesn\'t negate the fragility of the economic system that depends on networks, not referring exclusively to social networks for entertainment, but to the support of both the informal and formal markets that occur through them. Some more peripheral consequences are becoming evident: It would be normal for the social media giant\'s shares to fall; the dependence on digital interactions that we have acquired since the pandemic and its socio-affective implications; Zuckerberg\'s \"monopoly\" on social media, and the large market shares that this generates ( more information)